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

Direct. 14. Let the constant work of Faith be, to take you off the life of sense, by mortifying all the concupiscence of the flesh, and over-powering all the objects of sense.

The nearness of things sensible, and the violence and unreasonableness of the senses and appetite, do necessitate Faith to be a conflicting grace. Its use is to illuminate, elevate and corroborate Reason, and help it to maintain its authority and government. The life of a Believer is but a conquering warfare between Faith and Sense, and between things unseen, and the things that are seen. Therefore it is said, that they th•• are in the flesh cannot please God; because the flesh b•ing the predominant principle in them, they most savour and mind the things of the flesh; and therefore they can do more with them, than the things of the Spirit can do, when both are set before them, Rom. 8.5, 6, 7, 8.

The neerness of things sensible, and the violence and unreasonableness of the senses and appetite, do necessitate Faith to be a conflicting grace. Its use is to illuminate, elevate and corroborate Reason, and help it to maintain its authority and government. The life of a Believer is but a conquering warfare between Faith and Sense, and between things unseen, and the things that are seen. Therefore it is said, that they th•• are in the flesh cannot please God; because the flesh b•ing the predominant principle in them, they most savour and mind the things of the flesh; and therefore they can do more with them, than the things of the Spirit can do, when both are set before them, Rom. 8.5, 6, 7, 8.