()_( lVIr. F-Ienry ScougaL 3g·r that !1is heart and life were devoted to the fervice of ChriH; that he loved him above all 'things, and n1inded nothing .n1ore ,than his intetefr, aod employed' his life in fer-· ving his defigns, and· doing his will, and, lived by his faith. · The life of man in this-. world, is to be confider:'d both as to the· inward and outward man. The fDrmer, which is that of the ·foul, confi'frs in .the· . I underfl:anding, the will, 'and ' the affeCtions;; the other, ;being the owtard life·and. c0n~ verfation, is regulated according to the !a– ward difpofi.tions- of the foul. And as a· :rn-an's-kn timents and d1fpofirions are, fucft · is his life. Now, as the life of the body is firangely difordered, when the bloo'Ct and fi?h;its ~Q n,Qt run iq their ordi.nary cqurfe, , but n1ake convuluve 'and·ihvolunt'a-ry mct– tipns, which ar-e .nothii1g ufeful ·to the bo- ' . dy, nor guided by the will; fo the life of our fouls. is fo 'corrupted; as that ~e n1a:'f be faid to be dead while we live, when our. judge111:nt is blind an_d falfe, out will per– vcrfe a_nd cro.oked, our. affections earthlv and carnal, anrl we do not follow. the wilL - of God. And this is the frate of our life by natur~. What- a fi ra11ge blit1dnefs is-– there irr the f:pirir of ruan? vVe undedl:and; al tnoft. nothing_. of the gr.eatefl: things, and ... , 1 J"udue b
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