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THE POWERS
AND
CONTESTS
OF
FLESH
AND
SPIRT,
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love
to
God
your
Father,
and
to
Jesus, your Saviour,
is
excited,
and
your
souls
exert
themselves
as becomes
the children
of
God,
you have
most reason to
expect
the
presence
of
the
Holy
Spirit, to
bear
witness to
your
adoption;
and
to
your interests
in his love.
He
will
never
bestow
consolations
of
an
ordinary
or
extraordi-
nary
kind, where
there
is
a
wilful
neglect
of
the
duties
he
has
prescribed.
Frequent
the services
of
his
holy
tem-
ple;
the
out
goings
of
God our
King are
in
his
sanc-
tuary. His power and
glory, his
grace
and
kindness
are
made
visible
in his
house.
There
has
he
promised
his
own
presence;
and
where
his
presence
is,
he
often
brings
with
him the witnessing
Spirit.
AN
ESSAY.
ON THE POWERS AND CONTESTS OF FLESH AND
SPIRIT.
IT
is
agreed
by
all the
more sober
and
thinking part of
the
world,
that
man
is
a compounded
creature
and
it
is
made evident
from this
plain
and
easy
observation,
viz.
that
he
puts
forth
hourly
such
different kinds
of
action,
as
one simple being could never perform.
Flesh
and spirit are the
two
ingredients
that
go to
the compo
-,
position
;
yet they
keep
their
own
natures
still
,distinct,
unmingled, and
unconfounded.
By
the
flesh we
eat,
drink,
walk;
and
sleep,
and
are
a-kin
to
brute
animals
>
by the
spirit
we
think,
know,
and
chuse, and
hold kindred
with
angels.
It
appears
to
every
careful observer,
that
each
of
these,
parts
of
the man have
their
particular
and
distinct
na-
tures,
qualities,
and operations.
The
flesh
or
body,
includes
in
it
the
limbs,
blood,
and
breath,
with all
the grosser
And
finer materials, solid
or
fluid
;
that
make
up
the
animal
;
it
has
many inward fer
-,
ments
and appetites
of
its own
;
it
has
several
visible, as
well
as,
hidden
notions
:
and
it
receives various
impres-
sions,
made
by
outward
objects
of
sense, which
are pro
-
per
to itself, and
in
which
the
spirit
has no share.
On the
other hand, the soul or
spirit
includes the
un-
derstanding
and
will,
which
are
its
chief
powers
:
It
has