Verse 18. Lest there should be amongst you any thought, or affection, or evils derived from some falsity or false doctrine which should induce the will even in this regenerating state to turn from Divine good and truth to follow after those false principles which favour evil; lest in bringing forth the principles of the spiritual man into the natural life, evil should be mixed with good, or truth falsified, by the imagination that an evil life can be compatible with true religion;