It had prevailed to sever and part their souls from the power of in-ward lusts, as well as outward gross defilements, ----------- --- ---'that corruption that consists in lust or inward-concupiscence.' The prevailing knowledge of Christ had destroyed-and rent the indentures that had been between the soul and these-corruptions- for the word escaping speaks and hath reference to-freedom from the tyranny of a hard masster -or as it is, ver. 19 of-chap. 2-, of being 'servants of corruption.' In these sincere believers,-the divine power had cut the very heart-strings, ligaments, and ties-between their souls and their lusts so far, that their in ward man had-really parted with, and was delivered from the strength and violence-of lusts. But of those other, chap. 2, it is barely said they had escaped, 'the grosser defilements of the world,' ver. 20,