Sermons preached

1. Salt preserves Flesh from putrefaction by consuming that superfluous and excrementitious moisture, which otherwise would soon corrupt: and so the Salt of the Covenant doth prevent, and subdue those Lusts, which would cause us to deal unfaithfully with God. Alas! Meat is not so apt to be tainted as we are to be corrupted, and weakened in our resolutions to God, without the mortifying grace of the Spirit. That which is lame is soon turned out of the way, unless it be healed. Heb. 10. 13. And nothing is so unstable and mutable as an unmortified Soul; therefore we can never behave our selves as a Sacrifice, and an offering to God, unless we mortify our Members, which are upon Earth, inordinate Affections, Covetousness, and the like. Col. 3. 5. In short, the Flesh is that which is apt to be corrupted, and therefore the grace that doth preserve us must be something that doth wean us from the interests of the Flesh, and what is that but the mortifying Grace of the Holy Spirit? The Apostle saith, Eph. 6. 24. Grace be with all them that love the Lord Jesus in Sincerity, or in Incorruption. There are many crooked Lusts which are apt to corrupt us, and withdraw our love to other things, but when these are mortified and subdued, that we may have a greater amplitude of affection towards God and Christ, then we are said to love him in sincerity and in incorruption.

1. Salt preserves Flesh from putrefaction by consuming that superfluous and excrementitious moisture, which otherwise would soon corrupt: and so the Salt of the Covenant doth prevent, and subdue those Lusts, which would cause us to deal unfaithfully with God. Alas! Meat is not so apt to be tainted as we are to be corrupted, and weakned in our resolutions to God, without the mortifying grace of the Spirit. That which is lame is soon turned out of the way, unless it be healed. Heb. 10. 13. And nothing is so unstable and mutable as an unmortified Soul; therefore we can never behave our selves as a Sacrifice, and an offering to God, unless we mortify our Members, which are upon Earth, inordinate Affections, Covetousness, and the like.