Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

First, the principles are supernatural; first, they are above nature; and secondly, they are fetched from a fountain that nature hath no skill of. For the first, there is something above nature, that puts you upon duties; you do not only go on in the ways of godliness, because you know you are bound to them, you cannot be saved else, but because you find a new light let out by God from heaven, that shows an infinite excellency and beauty that is in the way ¹of godliness. And you find a principle of Divine nature put into you, that makes the ways of godliness agreeable to you; and the more Spiritual and Divine they are, the more suitableness you find between your souls and those ways.

First, the principles are supernatural; first, they are above nature; and secondly, they are fetched from a fountain that nature hath no skill of. For the first, there is something above nature, that puts you upon duties; you do not onely go on in the ways of godliness, because you know you are bound to them, you cannot be saved else, but because you finde a new light let out by God from heaven, that shews an infinite excellency and beauty that is in the way ¹of godliness. And you finde a principle of Divine nature put into you, that makes the ways of godliness agreeable to you; and the more Spiritual and Divine they are, the more suitableness you finde between your souls and those ways.

1. 1What a supernatural work is.

And secondly, do you find that you draw your principles that enables you to any good work from a Mediator? The natural principles come at highest but from reason, it sees reason for such and such things to be done; but a supernatural principle is drawn from a Mediator, from God-Man, from God in Christ, and by virtue of the promise, and so it comes to be an Evangelical obedience.