The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

This prevalency of things seen, against thing unseen, is the Idolatry of the world; the subversion of nature; the perversion of our faculties and actions; making the soul a drudge to flesh, and God to be used as a servant to the world. It destroyeth Piety, Justice and Charity: It turneth JUS by perversion into VIS; or by reversion into SUI. No wonder then if it be the ruin of societies, when Gens sine justitiâ, sine remige navis in undâ. It can possess even Demosthenes with a Squinancy, if there be but an Harpalus to bring him the infection. It can make a Judicature to be as Plutarch called that of Rome, [[Greek or Hebrew]] impiorum regionem;] contrary to Cicero's description of Sulpitius, who was [magis justitiae quam juris consultus, & ad ⟨p. 39⟩facilitatem aequitatemque omnia contulit; nec maluit litium actiones constituere, quam controversias tollere.] In a word, if you live by sense and not by Faith, on things present, and not on things unseen, you go backward; you stand on your heads ▪ and turn your heels against Heaven; you cause the beast to ride the man; and by turning all things upside down, will turn your selves into confusion.

This prevalency of things seen, against thing unseen, is the Idolatry of the world; the subversion of nature; the perversion of our faculties and actions; making the soul a drudge to flesh, and God to be used as a servant to the world. It destroyeth Piety, Justice and Charity: It turneth JƲS by perversion into VIS; or by reversion into SƲI. No wonder then if it be the ruine of societies, when Gens sine justitiâ, sine remige navis in undâ. It can possess even Demosthenes with a Squinancy, if there be but an Harpalus to bring him the infection. It can make a Judicature to be as Plutarch called that of Rome, [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] impiorum regionem;] contrary to Cicero's description of Sulpitius, who was [magis justitiae quam juris consultus, & ad ⟨p. 39⟩facilitatem aequitatemque omnia contulit; nec maluit litium actiones constituere, quam controversias tollere.] In a word, if you live by sense and not by Faith, on things present, and not on things unseen, you go backward; you stand on your heads ▪ and turn your heels against Heaven; you cause the beast to ride the man; and by turning all things upside down, will turn your selves into confusion.