2. Another truth which naturally follows from what has been said, is, that none shall obtain the honour that cometh of God, unless his heart be circumcised by faith; even a _faith of the operation of God_: unless refusing to be any longer led by his senses, appetites, or passions, or even by that blind leader of the blind, so idolized by the world, natural reason, he lives and _walks by faith_, directs every step, as _seeing him that is invisible, looks not at the things that are seen, which are temporal, but at the things that are not seen, which are eternal_; and governs all his desires, designs and thoughts, all his actions and conversations, as one who is entered in within the veil, where _Jesus_ sits at the right-hand of God. 3. *It were to be wished, that they were better acquainted with this faith, who employ much of their time and pains, in laying another foundation; in grounding religion, on “the eternal _fitness_ of things,” on “the intrinsic _excellence_ of virtue,” and the _beauty_ of actions flowing from it: on the _reasons_, as they term them, of good and evil, and the _relations_ of beings to each other. Either these accounts of the grounds of Christian duty, coincide with the scriptural, or not. If they do, why are well-meaning men perplext, and drawn from the weightier matters of the law, by a cloud of terms, whereby the easiest truths are explained into obscurity. If they are not, then it behoves them to consider, who is the author of this new doctrine: whether he is likely to be _an angel from heaven_, who _preacheth another gospel_ than that of _Christ Jesus_: though, if he were, God, not we, hath pronounced his sentence, _Let him be accursed_. 4. Our gospel, as it knows no other foundation of good works than faith, or of faith than _Christ_, so it clearly informs us, we are not his disciples, while we either deny him to be the author, or his Spirit to be the inspirer and perfecter both of our faith and works. _If any man have not the Spirit of_ Christ, _he is none of his_. He alone can quicken those who are dead unto God, can breathe into them the breath of Christian life, and so prevent, accompany, and follow them with his grace, as to bring their good desires to good effect. And _as many as are thus led, by the Spirit of_ God, _they are the sons of_ God. This is God’s short and plain account of true religion and virtue; and _other foundation can no man lay_.