alk toward that eternal life, and thus grace and
truth are come by Jesus Christ. Indeed, you must suffer the mortification
of your flesh, you must endure the pain of the death of your lusts, the
cutting off your right hand and plucking out your right eye, which would
make you offend and stumble in the way, but let the remembrance of the
life to come sweeten it all. When men undergo the hazard of losing life
for a little pleasure, when, for a poor petty advantage, men will endure
so much pains and trouble. O what should "eternal life," and such a life
as the best life here is but death to it! How should it mitigate and
sweeten the bitterness of mortification? How should it fortify our spirits
to much endurance and patience? A battle we must have, for these lusts
that we disengage from the devil, and the world besides, will lay wait for
us in this way, but, when for such small and inconsiderable advantages men
will endure all the disadvantages of war, of a long war, O how should the
expectation of this peace, which encloses and comprehends all felicity,
all well being, animate and strengthen us to fight in into the city of
life and peace eternal!

Sermon XX.

Verse 7.--"Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is
not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."

Unbelief is that which condemns the world. It involves in more
condemnation than many other sins, not only because more universal, but
especially because it shuts up men in their misery, and secludes them from
the remedy that is brought to light in the gospel. By unbelief I mean, not
only that careless neglect of Jesus Christ offered for salvation, but that
which is the root of that,--the inconsideration and ignorance of our
desperate sinfulness and irremediless misery without Christ,--which, not
being laid to heart seriously, makes such slight and superficial
entertainment of a Saviour and Redeemer. Man is truly miserable and
unhappy, whether he know it or not, but truly it is an accession to his
misery that he knows it not, that he neither apprehends what he is now by
nature, nor what he must shortly be made by justice. Indeed, if there were
no remedy to be found, it were a happy ignorance to be ignorant of misery,
the knowledge and remembrance of it could do nothing but add unto the
bitterness of it. If a man might bury it in eternal forgetfulness, it were
some ease. But now, when God hath in his mercy so appointed it, that