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and is therefore the common inheritance of all men, as descended from 
him. The latter is as distinctly said to be derived from the Lord Christ, 
who ‘was made a life-making vuevpa* ; and is therefore peculiar to those 
who are federally united to Him; those who are ‘in Christ/ But the 
whole tenour of the Apostle’s argument shows that this respective ori- 
gination is not only true of the two bodies , — the present corrupt, mortal, 
soulish, and the future immortal, glorious, spiritish ;*■ — but must be pre- 
dicated of the subtile immaterial principle, which animates each of the two 
respectively. The true believer possesses both of these animating essences ; 
for he is a compound, or, so to speak, a double entity. He still has the body 
and the soul which he derived from Adam ; the former of which, certainly, 
the latter, probably (see, however, 1 Thess. v. 23), will end, either at death, 
or by change at the coming of the Lord ; — and he has the new principle of 
life, which is that of the risen Christ ; for ‘ Christ ... is our life 5 (Col. 
iii. 4) ; and ‘he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit’ (1 Cor. vi. 17). 
But of this latter life, we possess as yet only the spiritish moiety : the body 
proper to this heavenly nature we wait for. Our glorified Head possesses 
both : His body is risen, and ‘is entered into His glory.’ We possess the 
life, ‘ the spirit ’ now, in actual fruition and experience : the spiritish body 
we have not yet, except in sure reversion, and representatively, in Him our 
Head and Forerunner. It does not appear to me that the Holy Scripture 
ever attributes i rvtvpa (in this distinctive sense) to an unrenewed, uncon- 
verted man. He is, and must be, d^Opunrog ; whereas the new- 
created, though he may be aapKiKog, is yet TrvevpaTiK'og,— 7 rvtvpari K oXg 7 rvev 
pariica cvyKpivuv (that is, I think, not ‘ comparing spiritual things with 
spiritual’ as in A. Y., but ‘discerning spiritual [things] by spiritual [senses 
or faculties] ’). It is worthy of observation, that the struggling, sincere, but 
ever vanquished man, whom the Apostle personates in Rom. vii., and whom 
I believe to represent a legally enlightened and conscientious, but (up to 
ver. 25) unrenewed, man ; speaks of vovg, but not of tt vevpa ‘.—this appears 
not till the following chapter, when he can joyfully testify that ‘ the Spirit’s 
law (of Life in Christ Jesus) hath made him free ’ (viii. 2). 
“P. H. Gosse.’’ 
I propose that the thanks of this meeting be given to Mr. English for 
his interesting paper, and also to Mr. Gosse for the remarks which he has 
been kind enough to send. It is now open to any one present to make such 
observations as he may desire to offer. 
Rev. C. A. Row. I rise first, because the author of the paper gives 
me a distinct challenge ; but I am challenged in good company, that of 
Dr. Irons, who, I regret, is not present. If Mr. English has read Dr. Irons’s 
papers on ‘Human Responsibility, ’f he will have seen that the matter is 
k I beg indulgence for the coining 
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