Practical Discourses Concerning the Christian Temper, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Thirty Eight Sermons Upon the Principal Heads of Practical Religion, ... Inforced by Christianity (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Practical Discourses Concerning the Christian Temper, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Thirty Eight Sermons Upon the Principal Heads of Practical Religion, Especially as Injoined and Inforced by Christianity

Eph. Iv. 2 5. Wherefore putting away lying,' fpeah every man truth with his neighhour for we are memhem one of another.

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Excerpt from Practical Discourses Concerning the Christian Temper, Vol. 2 of 2: Being Thirty Eight Sermons Upon the Principal Heads of Practical Religion, Especially as Injoined and Inforced by Christianity

The powers of the mind are vastly superior to thofe of the body; and they were deligned by our great Creator to fit at hehn over the Whole man. Now to live with a found mind, is to condu6l ourfelves as thofe who have an intelligent fpirit to prelide in body, to diredl and govern the whole.

The apoftacy hath inverted this order, fet the inferior powers in the throne, and inflaved the mind to the bodyj fo that the appetites and paflions we have by occafion of the body have the mofl: commanding influence jthe interefts of the meaner part are apt to be molt regarded and reafon, and the higher powers, inilead of giving law, receive law from appetite, and are preffed into its fervice to minifter to it.

Chriftianity is defigned to bring us to ourfehesj or to our right mind; to reinftate the reafonable fpirit in its juft empire over the whole man. And in this view we may eafily difcern the feveral branches of the temper becoming us, with reference to ourfelves.

We owe it to ourfelves in thfirft place to prefer the interefts of our immortal fouls before thofe of our perifhing bodies: Which is only to form a right judgment upon comparing the diiferent value of foul and body.

Hereupon we fhould exercife care and diligence to fecure our befl interefts, and anfwer able to their fuperior value and excellence jin oppofition to negligence nd floth.

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