41. But what remedy? “Who shall
deliver me out of the body of this death? Thanks be to God
through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom. vii. 24, 25. We have a physician, let us use the
remedy. Our remedy is the grace of Christ, and the body of death
is our body. Let us therefore be as strangers to our body, lest
we be strangers to Christ. Though we are in the body, let us not
follow the things which are of the body, let us not reject the rightful
claims of nature, but desire before all the gifts of grace:
“For to be dissolved and to be with Christ is far better; yet to
abide in the flesh is more needful for your sakes.” Phil. i. 23, 24.