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FLESH
AND
SPIRIT,
&C.
[sr.Rli.
TV.
tight
is
to last
but
threescore
years
and
ten ;
if
thou
overcome,
there
is
the
crown
of
life
ready for
thee,
which
Jesus
the
Judge
shall bestow on all
the
conquerors.
Remark VI. How
should
we
rejoice
in
hope
of
that
hour that
shall
release
us
from this sinful
flesh
;
when
we
shall serve
God
in
spirit without a
clog,
without
a
tempter
!
O with what
a
relish
of
sacred
pleasure
should
a saint read
those
words, in
2
Cor.
v.
8.
Absent
from the
body,
and present
with the
Lord
!
Absent from
this
traitor,
this vexing enemy,
that
we
constantly carry
about
with
us
!
Absent
from
the
clog
and chai*
of
this
sinful
flesh,
the
prison wherein
we
are
kept
in
darkness,
and
are
confined
from
God
!
Absent
from these
eyes
that
have drawn
our
souls
afar
from
God
bÿ
various
temptations
!
and absent
from
these
ears
by
which
we
have been
allured
to
transgression and defiling
iniqui-
ties
!
Absent
from
those lusts and passions, from
that
fear and
that
hope,
that
pleasure and
that
pain,
that
love,
that
desire, and
that
anger, which
are
all
carnal,
and
seated
in
the
fleshly
nature, and
become the
spring
and
occasion
of
so
much
sin
to
our
souls in this
state,
Absent
from
the
body,
andpresent
with
the
Lord
:
Me-
thinks there
is a
heaven
contained
in the
first
part of
these words,
absent
from
the body; and
a
double hap-
piness
in
the
last,
present
with the
Lord:
present
with
him who
bath
saved
our
spirits
through
all
the
days
of
our
christian
conflict,
and hath
given us
the
final
victory
:
Present
with
that
God,
who shall
eternally
influence
us
to
all
holiness, who shall for
ever
shine upon
us
with
his
own beams,
and make
us
conformable
to his own holy
image
:
Present
with
that Lord and
Saviour, from
whom
it
shall
not
be in
the power
of
all
creatures
to divert or
draw
us
aside.
It
is by
our
flesh in
this world
that
we
arc
a
-kin
to
so
many temptations, a -kin to
all
the objects
that
stand
around
us,
to
tempt
us from
Our
God;
and
we
are
ready
to cry
out,
"
O
the
blessed angels
that
were never
a
-kin
to
flesh
!
O
those blessed spirits, who move
swift as
flames
to
execute the
will
of their God, :without
the
en-
cumbrance of
flesh,
without
being
allured
by
that
most
powerful and successful
tempter!
Happy
beings!
they
know
not our
toils; they
feel them
not;
they
are
all
spirit:
they are
all
holy
!
O the blessed saints in
glory,