JETtM. tv.7 FLESH AND SPIRIT, &C. 55 The guilty wretch that trusts thy blood, Finds peace and pardon at the cross; The sinful soul averse to God, Believes and loves his Maker's laws. Learning andwit may cease their strife, When miracles with glory shine ; The voice that calls the dead to life, Must be almighty and divine. Let heathens scoff, and Jews oppose, Let Satan's bolts be hurl'd ; There's something wrought within you shews That Jesus saves the world. SERMON IF FLESH AND SPIRIT; OR, THE PRINCIPLES OF SIN AND HOLINESS. non, viii. 1. Who walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit. WHEN we use the words flesh and spirit, in their literal and proper sense, all men knowwhat we mean by them: Flesh generally signifies the animal nature ; that is, the body and blood, &c. and spirit means an intel- ligent nature that has understanding and will. When these are attributed to man, they are but other names to express those two distinct beings, the body and soul, that make up human nature. But these words are often in scripture used metapho- rically, and that in various senses; yet the metaphor, as it stands in my text, hath such justness and propriety in it, that the sense of it is not very difficult to be traced, being happily and nearly derived from the proper and literal meaning. It is plain that St. Paul uses this expression ofwalking after the flesh, to signify a course of sin ; and by walk- ing after the spirit, he describes a course of holiness. This is the character of such as believe in Christ, and to whom belongs no condemnation, that they walk not af- ter the flesh, but after the spirit ; they live not in a course of sin, nor according to sinful principles, but follow the principles of holiness that are wrought in them. Thus the word flesh signifies, and includes all the prin- 4
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