After the manner of men; as much as to say, In calling you the servants of righteousness, I do not mean that you are not truly free, but I use an illustration drawn from a relation with which you are familiar.

Because of the infirmity of your flesh; your dulness, on account of your remaining carnality, in rightly apprehending divine truth.

As ye have yielded your members; as they had heretofore employed them in the practice of sin, they should hereafter employ them in the practice of holiness. Familiar illustrations drawn by ministers from the common concerns of life with which their hearers are acquainted, are among the best modes of giving them clear conceptions of divine truth, and making a right impression upon their hearts.

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