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pies of
holiness, as
there are
why flesh
should
signify
the
principles
of
sin.
Ist. Because
the objects and
aim
of
holy souls
are
chiefly
spiritual,
viz.
God
and heaven, invisible
and
eternal
things.
Spiritual
objects
are chief
in
their
esteem,
most
in
their
thoughts, and
in
their
desires,
and have
the first
place in
their
designs
and
pursuit:
As
they
that
are
after
the
flesh,
mind the things
of
the flesh;
so
they
that
are
after
the spirit, mind the things
of
the
spirit;
Born. viii. 5,
A
saint,
who
is
spiritually-
minded, aims
at
those
things
that are
more
a
-kin to the
nature of
a
spirit;
he
seeks
the
knowledge
of
the favour
of
God,
who
is
the
supreme
of
Spirits, the infinite
and
self-sufficient
Spirit,
in
whose knowledge,
and
in
whose love,
all
intelligent
creatures
find
a
full sufficiency
of
blessedness.
He
k
lows
that
all
created
spirits, who
are
holy
and
happy;
are
made
so
by
derivations
from
God's
all-
sufficient holiness.
and happiness; and
therefore he
applies himself with
zeal
and vigour
to all
those
spiritual
exercises
of medita-
tion, faith and prayer, wherein
God reveals
himself
and
his mercy.
The
knowledge
of
God
and
his
worship,
of
Christ and
his
gospel,
of
the Holy Spirit and
his
grace,
is
the
chief desire
of
a
holy soul.
These are
the objects
of
the
pursuit of
a spiritual
man;
he has
devoted
him
-
self
to
God
and things
divine;
upon account
of
which,
a
man
is
denominated
holy,
and
therefore
holiness
iS
called spirit.
The
holy
man
seeks the welfare
of
his own
soul
or
spirit
before
that
of
his flesh;
and
while sinful men
lay
out
their
whole
care and contrivance
about
the body,
which
must
die,
and
grasp at
the
things
of
this
life
to
make provision for the
flesh,
the
saint
is
most
concerned
about
his soul, which
is
an
immortal
spirit;
he
endea-
vours
to
rectify those disorders
of
it,
which
sin
and
the
flesh
have
introduced, and
is
ever diligent
to
make
pro-
vision
for
this soul
of
his in
the spiritual and unseen
world,
because it
must have a
being
there
for ever.
The holy
man
is
most solicitous
that
his
soul may be
happy
in an
unknown hereafter,
while the
sinner
seeks
all
his
happiness
here.
As
the
natural
man neglects the
two
chief
Spirits
he
l4s
any concern
with,
that
is,
God and
his own soul
;
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