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FLESH
AND
SPIRIT,
&C.
61
:
common and
allowed practice.
:
We are regenerated and
new-
created
by
the
spirit
of God
;
Titus
iii. 5.
Not
by
works
of
righteousness
which
we
have done,
but
of
his
Own
mercy
bath
he
saved
us
by
regeneration, and renew-
ing
of
the
Holy Ghost.
Illdly.
Another reason
why
the
principle
of
holiness
is
called spirit,
is
because the
chief
springs
of
holiness,
and
of
opposition to
sin,
are found
in
the soul or spi-
ritual part,
as
the
springs
and
occasions
of
sin
are
chiefly
seated
in
the
flesh...
This
is
true
both
in
saints
and sinners
;
for even
in
sinners
that
have no renewing grace,
there
is
the light
of
nature,
as
well
as the
knowledge
of
scripture
in
our
nation; there
are
the powers
of
reason and conscience
;
and these
judge
concerning vice and virtue,
that
one
is
to be avoided,
and
the
other
practised
;
these inward
and
intellectual principles
tell
us,
that
sin
is
offensive
to
God our Maker
;
that
it
exposes
us
to
his
anger,
and
deserves
terrible punishment;
and, by
the exercise
and
influence
of
natural
reason, added
to
the knowledge
of
scripture,
and
by
the inward
stings,
and 'sharp reproofs
of
natural
conscience, many an
evil
motion
of
the
flesh
is
suppressed, many
An
inordinate appetite
and passion
subdued, and many a grosser
sin
prevented. Now,
though all
this
is
not properly
called holiness, till
the
nature
itself
be
renewed, the love
of
sin
broken,
and
the
love
of
God
wrought
in
the
heart
;
yet it
is
evident
that
those principles
which
resist
sin,
and
have any
dis-
tant
tendencies toward
holiness, lie chiefly in
the mind
or spirit.
This
is
yet
more
evident
in a
saint,
a
man
that
is
rege-
nerated and
sanctified
by
grace
:
For
though
in such
a
person, the body
as well as
the spirit,
may be in
part
sanctified
;
that
is,
some
of
its
irregular appetites
may
be much weakened and
subdued; yet
still
I cannot help
supposing
that
the spirit,
or
soul, has
a
greater
share
of
sanctification than
the
flesh in
this
life.
Ít
is
in
the soul
that
the
love
of
God
is
wrought
by
the Holy
Spirit; it
is
the soul
that
repents
of
past
sins,
and watches
against
temptation; it
is
the soul
that
believes the gospel,
and
trusts
in
our Lord
Jesus Christ
;
it
is
the soul
that
by
faith takes a
distant prospect
of
heaven and
hell,
and
converses with
invisible things beyond the
reach and