Sermons preached

(1.) Our Inclination to carnal things, which prepossesseth our Hearts, and then there is no Room for any Inclination to God. Naturally Men are addicted to vain and sensual Delights; for that which is born of the Flesh, is Flesh, 2 Joh. 16. Having no Principle to incline them to God, they wholly seek to please the Flesh. When Men once lost Original Righteousness, they took up with what came next to hand, and so became Lovers of Pleasures, more than Lovers of God, 2 Tim. 3. 4. And this Inclination: we cannot devest our selves of, till it be cured by Grace. Therefore the Lord promiseth this Cure; Deut. 30. 6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thine Heart, and the Heart of thy Seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine Heart, and with all thy Soul. The Heart must be circumcised before it can love God. Till God pare away the Foreskin, and till this carnal Love be mortified, there is no place for Divine Love to be raised and quickened in our Hearts. We are entangled in the Love of worldly things, and shall so remain till God bend the crooked Stick the other way, and God set our Hearts right to himself.

(1.) Our Inclination to carnal things, which prepossesseth our Hearts, and then there is no Room for any Inclination to God. Naturally Men are addicted to vain and sensual Delights; for that which is born of the Flesh, is Flesh, 2 Joh. 16. Having no Principle to incline them to God, they wholly seek to please the Flesh. When Men once lost Original Righteousness, they took up with what came next to hand, and so became Lovers of Pleasures, more than Lovers of God, 2 Tim. 3. 4. And this Inclination: we cannot devest our selves of, till it be cured by Grace. Therefore the Lord promiseth this Cure; Deut. 30. 6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thine Heart, and the Heart of thy Seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine Heart, and with all thy Soul. The Heart must be circumcised before it can love God. Till God pare away the Foreskin, and till this carnal Love be mortified, there is no place for Divine Love to be raised and quickned in our Hearts. We are intangled in the Love of worldly things, and shall so remain till God bend the crooked Stick the other way, and God set our Hearts right to himself.