Witness, ye saints, that Christ is true; Tell how his name imparts The life of grace and glory too: Ye have it in your hearts. The heav’nly building is begun When ye receive the Lord; His hands shall lay the crowning stone, And well perform his word. Your souls are form’d by wisdom’s rules, Your joys and graces shine; You need no learning of the schools, To prove your faith divine. Let heathens scoff, and Jews oppose, Let Satan’s bolts be hurl’d; There’s something wrought within you shews That Jesus saves the world. SERMON IV. _Flesh and Spirit; or, the Principles of Sin and Holiness._ Rom. viii. 1.—Who walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit. When we use the words flesh and spirit, in their literal and proper sense, all men know what we mean by them: Flesh generally signifies the animal nature; that is, the body and blood, &c. and spirit means an intelligent nature that has understanding and will. When these are attributed to man, they are but other names to express those two distinct beings, the body and soul, that make up human nature. But these words are often in scripture used metaphorically, and that in various senses; yet the metaphor, as it stands in my text, hath such justness and propriety in it, that the sense of it is not very difficult to be traced, being happily and nearly derived from the proper and literal meaning. It is plain that St. Paul uses this expression of _walking after the flesh_, to signify a course of sin; and by _walking after the spirit_, he describes a course of holiness. This is the character of such as believe in Christ, and to whom belongs no condemnation, _that they walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit_; they live not in a course of sin, nor according to sinful principles, but follow the principles of holiness that are wrought in them.