278 ARM, 113 AND, AND very woefully, that he 'bas not the Power of thinking, laying, or doing, one good thing ; and that, however fpecious many moral Acts may appear to the World, there is nothing intrinlically holy, but what is brought into him and maintained in him by the Agencÿ of the Hor.v ONE. Body, Soul and Spirit,* therefore, he meekly furrenders to his GOD, for Time and for Eternity. He diftrufts his own Wifdom and Will in all Cafes, from a juif Perfuafion, that what is perverfe in its own Nature can only lead him aftray. His whole Security from Falling he founds upon his GOD; and accordingly he flies to Him in all his Temptations and Diftrefles, great or fmall. He feels himfelf a poor weak Creature, that cannot Rand a Moment, and is, therefore, never eafy, but when he leans upon his Be- loved. He is well acquainted with this Truth, uttered by a good Man, That, " with GOD, the Moft of Mofts [in oppoltion to himfelf] is lefs than nothing ; " hut, without Him, the Leaft of Leafts is too great a Burden." t And he bath that Joy and Peace in his Saviour, which he knows the World can neither give * ; Theff. v. 23. rtrevsa 'evyri Suss. The, Apoftle, wri, Ling to Greeks, ufed this tripartite Divifion of human Nature, which was the prevalent Opinion taken from Plato, in order to exprefs more amply, that every Faculty, corporeal or fpiritual, fhould be devoted to GOD. Some have been much puzzled at the Diitinthion between Spirit and Soul, and have fuppofed, that the. Apoftle referred to two different Principles befide the Body. Gal- lafius, in his Annotations upon the 5th Book of Irenceus (c. ii. §. 5.) jui ly obferyes, That the Apoflle only meant to e2prefs the two 'Faculties of the fame immaterial Principle the Under"landing or Mind by the Word Spirit and the 4jii ions or Will by the Word &u/. As though it had been Paid, that we fhould aim to think nothing 'by our Minds, to deftre nothing in our Hearts, and to, do nothing with our Bodies; but what may tend to GOD's Glory. The fame Diflin&ion prevails, in the Old Teftament, in the Words rtri Spirit, and tvol Soul; but they both pertain to one and the fame incorporeal Exiltence, which forms the Life, and is the Glory, of the Body. The like Remark may be made of the Ánimus and Ánima of the Latins; the former correfponding with the Nug, and the latter with the 9'vx't of the Greeks. } FLEMING't Script. Truth. p. z4.8. nor
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