Spiritual Death

[Herald]

Are there quotes from the Puritans on the term "spiritual death"? I am thinking of passages such as Ephesians 2:1 and Colossians 2:13 that infer spiritual death before regeneration.

 

[C. Matthew McMahon]

Literally too many to post. About 2300 times, thereabouts in my library.

"This scripture represents unto us the miserable and lamentable state of the unregenerate, as being under the power of spiritual death, which is the cause and inlet of all other miseries."
John Flavel, The Works of John Flavel (Vol. 2) Sermon 31 Method of Grace.

"There is no doubt, but spiritual death is included." John Howe, The Works of John Howe.

"The beginning of spiritual death in the matter of sense, is spiritual bondage." William Ames, The Marrow of Theology, 12:35

LIFE AND DEATH, NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL, COMPARED. CHAP. IV. "Of death in sin. All unregenerate men spiritually dead. Spiritual death two-fold. Moral. Metaphorical." John Owen, The Works of John Owen (Vol. 2), 327.

Etc.

Ephesians 2:1 is referenced in their writings 442 times in 178 books.
Colossians 119 times in 78 works.

Were you looking for something specific?

 

[Kinghezy]

Matthew Henry Col passage -- A state of sin is a state of spiritual death. Those who are in sin are dead in sin. As the death of the body consists in its separation from the soul, so the death of the soul consists in its separation from God and the divine favour. As the death of the body is the corruption and putrefaction of it, so sin is the corruption or depravation of the soul. As a man who is dead is unable to help himself by any power of his own, so an habitual sinner is morally impotent: though he has a natural power, or the power of a reasonable creature, he has not a spiritual power, till he has the divine life or a renewed nature.