follow it,
and count it bonds and cords to be restrained. But, oh! know and consider,
that flesh will lead you by the kingdom, that guide of your way, to which
you committed yourself, will lead you by heaven, Gal. v. 21. It is a blind
guide, corruption and humour, and will have no eyes, no discerning of that
pit of eternal misery. They choose the way that is best pathed and
trodden--that is easiest, and that most walk into, and this certainly will
lead you straight into this pit of darkness. Be called off this way, from
following your blind lusts, and rather suffer them to be crucified. Be
avenged on them for your two eyes that they have put out, and their
treacherous dealing to you, in leading you the high way to destruction.
Come in to Jesus Christ, and ye shall get a new guide of the way,--the
Spirit that shall lead you into all truth, unto the blessed and eternal
life. Christ is the way ye must walk in, and the life that we must go into
at the end of our way, and the truth according to which we must walk. Now
he hath given his Spirit, the Comforter, to be our leader in this way,
according to this rule and pattern unto that life. In a word the Spirit
shall lead you the straight way unto Christ. You shall begin in him, and
end in him. He shall lead you from grace to glory. The Spirit that came
down from heaven, shall lead you back to heaven. All your walk is within
the compass of Christ,--out of him is no way to heaven.

But we must not take this so grossly, as if no other thing were a walking
after the flesh, but the gross abominations among men, though even these
will scrape a great number from being in Christ Jesus, but it must be
further enlarged, to the motions and affections of the unrenewed spirit,
and the common principles according to which men walk. And therefore the
apostle, Col. iii., Gal. v., nameth many things among the works of the
flesh, and members of the old man, which I doubt whether many will account
so of,--some natural passions that we account nothing of, because common,
as anger, wrath, covetousness. What man is there amongst us, in whom some
of these mentioned stir not? Many of your hearts and eyes are given to
covetousness, your souls bow downward as your bodies do, and many times
before your bodies. Is not the heart of men upon this world, and cannot
rise above to a treasure in heaven? And therefore your callings otherwise
lawful, and all your pains and endeavours in them, hath this seal of the