for we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold a slave to sin.

because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.

they have thought fit, I say, and they owed them as much. for if the Gentiles have participated of their spirituals, they are bound on their side to minister to them in their temporals.

However, I could not speak to you, my brethren, as to the spiritual, or as to the dispassionate, but as to novices in christianity.

for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part? while one cries I am Paul's disciple, and another, I am Apollo's, are ye not vicious?

if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?

for this is to me matter of glorying, the testimony of my conscience, that without artifice, and with religious sincerity, not by worldly wisdom, but by God's favourable assistance I have behaved my self towards all men, but more particularly to you.

Let no man condemn you, from an affectation of humility, in worshipping of Angels, boldly prying into matters which he knows nothing of, being vainly puft up with his Jewish conceits:

who was not establish'd by virtue of a temporary law, but with the power of being a perpetual priest.

only in matters relating to meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, meer external rites which were to subsist only till the time of reformation.

but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your