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Old 03-14-2008, 03:00 PM
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We can all attest to the power of sin in our lives before we are regenerated. Zwingli obviously was typical of the Roman Priests in that day.
Even after regeneration our struggle with sin is no picnic.
That is why so many believers have been helped by John Owen's books on Indwelling Sin, Mortification and Temptation. It really is a fight to the death.

FWIW a friend of mine who spent a fair while at university studying Zwingli, told me about the story Jacob mentioned.
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