A34165:416
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl…
A Complete collection of farewell sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.A Compleat collection of farewel sermons preached by Mr. Calamy, Dr. Manton, Mr. Caryl ... [et al.] ; together with Mr. Ash his funeral sermon, Mr. Nalton's funeral sermon, Mr. Lye's rehearsal ... with their several prayers.
London : s.n., 1663
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10. Especially understand how much the flesh and carnal self is an enemy to God and your Souls, and how much you are engaged by the Christian Covenant to live in a warfare against your selves, and against your flesh. You must not think the life of life-pleasing is consistent with Religion; understand how you are bound to take the flesh for your enemy, to watch against it, and to live in a continual combat with it, Col. 3.5. The flesh is your chiefest enemy: the very senses themselves are all grown inordinate, and the work of Faith is very much seen in its exercise this way: If you get an opinion, that you may eat, and drink, and clothe, &c. and do all things to gratify your selves, &c. then no wonder if you find but little increase in spirituals, while you grow so carnal. Understand and practice the duty of self-denial, self is the very heart of sin; read i• not under pretence of liberty in Religion.
10. Especially understand how much the flesh and carnal self is an enemy to God and your Souls, and how much you are engaged by the Christian Covenant to live in a warfare against your selves, and against your flesh. You must not think the life of life-pleasing is consistent with Religion; understand how you are bound to take the flesh for your enemy, to watch against it, and to live in a continual combat with it, Col. 3.5. The flesh is your chiefest enemy: the very sences themselves are all grown inordinate, and the work of Faith is very much seen in its exercise this way: If you get an opinion, that you may eat, and drink, and cloath, &c. and do all things to gratifie your selves, &c. then no wonder if you find but little encrease in spirituals, while you grow so carnal. Understand and practice the duty of self-denial, self is the very heart of sin; read i• not under pretence of liberty in Religion.
11. Give not way to a formal, heartless, seeming Religiousness, customariness, without the life: but keep your souls in a continual seriousness and awakedness about God, immortality, and your great concernment. If Duty be dead, take heed lest that incline you to a deadness in another, and so grow a customary deadness. Take heed of spiritual slothfulness, that makes you keep your hands in your bosom, when you should be doing for your soul; stir up to, and in duty, when you have but little time for life eternal: do not pray as if you prayed not, nor hear as though you heard not; but when upon Duty, doing Gods service, do it with all the seriousness and vigour you can. To grow lazy and negligent is the declining way: use such considerations as may stir you up,