Read the Introduction by Rev. Robert Maguire, D. D.

Mr. Lustings

The first Diabolonian Mayor.[3]

"LUSTINGS is the body of the flesh—the carnal instrument of so much loss and damage to the soul; it is the law in our members warring against the law of the mind. This evil spirit remains long after Satan has been cast out. It is the inner nature, still untamed. It must be searched out, examined, convicted, mortified, crucified, utterly slain—“the body of this death.” It is to the renewed man what the dead body would be when, as in olden times, bound to a living man—“Oh, wretched man, that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Romans 7: 24."[2]

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Sources


1. Rev. George Burder, Explanatory, Experimental and Practical Notes. The Holy War. By John Bunyan. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, [Pref. 1803.]
2. Rev. Robert Maguire, Annotations. The Holy War. By John Bunyan. London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, c1866.
3. John Bunyan, The Holy War.
4. Charlie Doe, my own comments.