376 Walking by Faith, not by Sight, SE x M. I Mall in the following difcourfe diftinc't XV. ly confider thefe two contrary principles of action, fight and faith, by which, I hope, we fhall fee the reafonablenefs and excel- lency of the religious, or the chriftian, life conducted by the latter principle, and be de- termined to chufe it ; at the fame time we may be able to form a true judgment con- cerning the charaaer of our own converfa- tion. Fir-/l, Let us confider what it is to walk by fight : As walking in the proper and li- teral fenfe is a voluntary motion, it fignifieth here, and in the ufual Rile of the fcriptures, ordering the couçfe of our voluntary and de- liberate actions. As we are confcious of our being free agents, whofe works depend up- on our own choice, the queftion is, what guide we Mall follow in them? That which is the molt obvious, and firft occurreth to our minds, the apoftle here calleth fight, the knowledge conveyed to us by our fenfes, and the views we have of the external ítate of things in this world. Every man knoweth his prefent confutation to be fuch, that a multitude of outward fenfible objects make firong imprefi:ions on his mind : The ideas of them are conveyed by various ave-. nues,
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