An Exact collection of farewell sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…An Exact collection of farewel sermons preached by the late London-ministers viz. Mr. Calamy,…

Second thing, and that is the duty here pressed. 1. Here is the privative. 2. The positive part of our duty: Here is mortification and vivification; Mortification, Let us lay aside, &c. Vivification, Let us run with patience, &c. In both the branches he alludes to terms proper to Races: In a Race you know men strip themselves of their Clothes, and whatever is burdensome and heavy, that they may be the more light of foot; and so the Apostle bids us lay aside every weight; and they did withal diet themselves, that they might have no clog from within, 1 Cor. 9 25. Every man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things &c. They took care that they did not clog and indispose themselves for the race they were to run; but they verily run only for a corruptible Crown; we for a Crown that is incorruptible and glorious; so according to this double practice of Racers, we are to cast aside every weight from without, &c. So here's a double object, laying aside every weight, and of sin; There's onus externum, the weight without, that presseth us down, and hinders our speed; and then there's impedimentum internum, there's sin, that which weakens within: By reason of the former, we make little speed; by reason of the latter we ⟨p. 316⟩are often interrupted, and therefore we must do as they, that they might be swift and expedite, lay aside every weight, and be more temperate in all things. Herein a Runner in a Race differs from a Traveller; a Traveller strengthens himself for his Journey as well as he can, his clothes on, sometimes carries a great burden with him; but a Runner of a Race makes himself as light as he can. But to come more particularly to the words.

Second thing, and that is the duty here pressed. 1. Here is the privative. 2. The positive part of our duty: Here is mortification and vivification; Mortification, Let us lay aside, &c. Vivification, Let us run with patience, &c. In both the branches he alludes to terms proper to Races: In a Race you know men strip themselves of their Cloaths, and whatever is burdensome and heavy, that they may be the more light of foot; and so the Apostle bids us lay aside every weight; and they did withall diet themselves, that they might have no clog from within, 1 Cor. 9 25. Every man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things &c. They took care that they did not clog and indispose themselves for the race they were to run; but they verily run onely for a corruptible Crown; we for a Crown that is incorruptible and glorious; so according to this double practice of Racers, we are to cast aside every weight from without, &c. So here's a double object, laying aside every weight, and of sin; There's onus externum, the weight without, that presseth us down, and hinders our speed; and then there's impedimentum internum, there's sin, that which weakens within: By reason of the former, we make little speed; by reason of the latter we