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  FEBRUARY 15. 1678. THE MIXT, OR TWOFOLD STATE.
  by Jane Lead
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the need to resist the earthly,
burdensome life and seek the free, powerful nature of Jesus for victory
over sin and a life with God.

Topics: "Spiritual Struggle", "Christian Freedom"
Scripture References: Romans 7:24, 1 Corinthians 15:53, Galatians 5:16, 1 John 2:15, 1 John 5:4

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Jane Lead delves into the Twofold State of the Spirit, expressing a
longing for the Heavenly over the Earthly, which is burdensome and
temporary. She grapples with the struggle of how to navigate this
earthly existence while desiring to be free from its corruptible nature
to fully live with God. Drawing inspiration from Paul, she seeks
deliverance from the sinful mortal life, anticipating victory through
Christ to overcome barriers hindering communion with God. Lead
encourages resistance to the temptations of the world, assuring that
those who endure the trials of terrestrial life with a focus on the
divine will ultimately transcend the limitations of this world and find
true freedom in Jesus.

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Being upon a deep examination of the Twofold State, in which I found my
Spirit, a Passenger far more agreeable to the Heavenly, than to the
Earthly, which is now tiresome and burthensome in all its necessary
consequences, relating to corporeity, But how to avoid and get off
herefrom was my great concern. The rational Mind and Senses being suited
in all things, for this mean degree of Life, having to sustain a Body
Elementary, for which is required such exercises of the Mind therein,
that else would rise more sublimely, than to be careful for a gross
corruptible Being, as knowing it must be put off or changed, before the
Soul can live with God joyfully or without interruption.

Now what to do, but like Paul I cried out for riddance from a Sin Mortal
Life, as the only present redress, in hope Christ our Life, would yet
have Victory over that in us, which hath been such a bar to all our
Fruitions and enjoyments with God. But while I was in these complaints,
this Word came, saying, Those who find themselves grieved and molested
by a Terrestrial Life, as made Subject unwillingly hereunto, shall not
be chargeable with any of those evil consequences, that the corporeal
State hath produced.

But if they still resist, and give no countenance, to any thing which
doth spring from that Root, then in time your Spirits through contaction
with the divine Body, shall out-wear all of the corruptible property,
and so be altogether found in the free powerful Nature of Jesus, for
Victory and Dominion over all of this evil World.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/jane-lead/february-15-1678-the-mixt-or-twofold-state/
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