The Life of Faith. that alithe world do walk in, to the two extreamly different ends, which appear when death withdraws the veil. It is the ordination of God, that mens own effimation, cl.oice and cn deaveurr, (hall be the necefTsry preparative to thiir Fruition: bingo nolens bonus ant beatus eft. Men (hall have no better than they value,., and chufe, and leek: Where earthly things are high,fi in the e,)teem, and deareft to the mind of man, fuch- perfons have no higher, not more durable a portion. Where the heavenly things are higheft and dearft to the foul, andare praaically preferred, they are the portion of that foul. Where the Treafiere is, the heart will be, Matth. 6. 21. The fanEfify- ing fpirit doth lead the fpiritual man, by a fpiritual Rule, in a fpiritualay, to a fpiritual, g'orious, durable felicity. The f nfual part, with the lènfual inclination communicated to the corrupted mind and will, doth by carnal reafonings, and by carnal means, purfue and embrace a prefant, fading, carnal in- tereff : and thcrcfore it findeth and attaineth no more. The fl fh lufteth.agein/i the Spirit, and the fpirit againff thefl Jh ;and thefe are c, ntrary the one to the other, Gal. 5. 17. They that are after the flefh, do mind the things of theflefh; but they that are after thefpirit, the things of the#srit. To be carnally minded it death; but to be ffiriteoally minded is life andpeace: Becaufe the carnal mind it enmity again(f God ; for it is not fu jebf to the Law of God, neither indeedcan be : So then, they that are in the flesh cannot pleafe Gad. If anyman have not the Spirit of C'briff, the fame is nnie of his. If we live after thefl:fh, we shall die: but if by the fjoirit we mortifie the deeds :of the body, ire shall live. Rom. 8. tov.14. ;Wiroar f -aver a man foweth, that shall be elfo reap. He that fweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption.: but he that fowetbto the #zrir, shell of.the fpirit reap everlaffiyrglfe, Gal. 6. 7, 8. As a man is, fo he loveth and deftr.eth ; as he defiretb, he Peektb ; and as he f eketb, he findeth and pelffje,h. If, you know which world, what riches a man prefers, intends, and lrvethfer, you may know which world is his inheritance, and whither he is going as to his perpetual abode. , Reafon enableth a man to know and leek more than hefeetbr And Faith inforrneth and advancethKeafon, to know, that by the means of fupernataral Revelation, that by noother means f3 is 49
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