{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/103/1030495.htm","path":"chr/ecf/103/1030495.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/103/1030495.htm","text":"12. When, therefore, you hear it said, \u201cSin shall not reign over you;\u201d 1851 have not thou confidence of thyself, that sin reign not over thee, but of Him, unto Whom a certain Saint saith in prayer, \u201cDirect my paths after Thy Word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me.\u201d 1852 For lest haply, after that we had heard, \u201csin shall not reign over you,\u201d we should lift up ourselves, and lay this to our own strength, straightway the Apostle saw this, and added, \u201cFor ye are not under the Law, but under Grace.\u201d Therefore, Grace causeth that sin reign not over you. Do not thou, therefore, have confidence of thyself, lest it thence reign much more over thee. And, when we hear it said, \u201cIf by the Spirit ye shall mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live,\u201d 1853 let us not lay this so great good unto our own spirit, as though of itself it can do this. For, in order that we should not entertain that carnal sense, the spirit being dead rather than that which putteth others to death, straightway he added, \u201cFor as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.\u201d 1854 Therefore that by our spirit we may mortify the works of the flesh, we are led by the Spirit of God, Who gives Continence, whereby to curb, tame, overcome lust.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III: Moral Treatises...","type":"page"}