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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 and
wit 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 know
what
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
of
walking
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-
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