They endeavor to reform their old state, and to be made perfect in the flesh, instead of putting it off and walking according to the New State in Christ.

They trust on low carnal things for Holiness, and upon the acts of their own will, their purposes, resolution, and endeavors, instead of Christ, and they trust to Christ to help them in this carnal way,

Whereas True Faith would Teach them that they are nothing, and that they do but labor in vain.

They Began in the Spirit.

But, alas how they went off into the flesh!

Flesh! may manifest itself in many ways.

It may be manifested in fleshly wisdom.

This is the weakness…

It is all in that one word – flesh.