Walk by faith
Faith alone it is which effectively answers this end, as we learn from daily experience. For so long as we walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7), we go swiftly on in the way of holiness. While we steadily look not at the things which are seen but at those which are not seen (2 Corinthians 4:18), we are more and more crucified to the world and the world crucified to us (Galatians 6:14). Let but the eye of the soul be constantly fixed, not on the things which are temporal but on those which are eternal, and our affections are more and more loosened from earth and fixed on things above (Colossians 3:2). So that faith in general is the most direct and effective means of promoting all righteousness and true holiness: of establishing the holy and spiritual law in the hearts of those who believe.
1771 text
Faith alone it is, which effectually answers this end, as we learn from daily experience. For so long as we walk by faith not by sight, we go swiftly on in the way of holiness. While we steadily look, not at the things which are seen, but at those which are not seen, we are more and more crucified to the world and the world crucified to us. Let but the eye of the soul be constantly fixed, not on the things which are temporal, but on those which are eternal, and our affections are more and more loosened from earth, and fixed on things above. So that faith in general is the most direct and effectual means of promoting all righteousness and true holiness: of establishing the holy and spiritual law, in the hearts of them that believe.
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Sermon 36 in the 1771 Works. Romans 3:31.
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