Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

Till a man hath new eyes, and hath his understanding opened to see the nature of all these things, otherwise than he did before, he will not walk contrary to what he did before; if he see no more of Christ, nor in the Attributes of God, nor in Grace, he will still flight all these and undervalue them; if he have the same admiring ⟨p. 259⟩apprehensions of the World, and seeth as much beauty in (deformed) sin, he will love it still, and delight in it still. There must be new light, and new saving knowledge before there can be a new life.

To walk in newness of life, includes newness of Principle; a man with his old Principle can never lead a new life. A man in old courses may live according to the Dictates of a natural conscience, according to old customs, but he that leads a new life must have a new Principle of love to God, a new Principle of true fear of God, he must have new strength from Christ, a new heart and new affections.

To walk in newness of life, includes newness of Principle; a man with his old Principle can never lead a new life. A man in old courses may live according to the Dictates of a natural conscience, according to old customes, but he that leads a new life must have a new Principle of love to God, a new Principle of true fear of God, he must have new strength from Christ, a new heart and new affections.

To walk in newness of life, includes the vigorous actings of this new Principle, and living in the exercise of these new graces infused into the heart, in the exercise of new love to God, of new desires after Christ, of new sorrow for his sin, of new hatred to his sin. To walk is to exert a principle of motion into act.