from God. The doctrine of the security of the believer does not obviate this sequence. The only way of avoiding the issue of death is to be delivered and desist from the life of the flesh. “But if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.” The sequence in this case is as inevitable and invariable as in the other. It is noteworthy that in this case the apostle does not use a parallel mode of expression, “if ye live after the Spirit”. He becomes much more concrete and reverts