of our lower nature by which we are specially crippled and detained under the power of evil. The spiritual nature, if it were set free, would take cognizance of the truth. The fall of man ¦ took place through the deceptive yearnings of his material being. The fall of angels was different from this. They abode not in the truth; but they had no tempter to deceive.

We must therefore remember that our fleshly nature as being the instrument of sin to us has to be mortified continually, and then secondly, that though it is the instrument whereby sin deceives us, it is not itself the seat of sin. The seat of sin is in the soul. The fleshly lust wars against the soul, enticing the soul to sin, but the sin is in the soul, the soul's own act. The mortification of the outer nature is not therefore of itself sufficient for the destruction of sin. We have to abstain from fleshly lusts because they are for ever warring against the ransomed soul. The exhortation of the Apostle consequently involves far more than a mere abstinence from outward acts of sin. It involves a discipline of the whole being in its relation to an outer world, which is ever ready to deceive the heart, and lead us astray from GOD.

By faith we must live in the light of our Divine revelation according to the intuitions of a spiritual world, which is the natural sphere of our soul's true energies. As strangers and pilgrims we must not be deluded by the mirage of the wilderness of the world. As the children of GOD by faith in CHRIST JESUS, we must not yield to the phantasmagoria of sense. The heart must abide in such

continual appreciation of the communion of Saints as to maintain a hold ever unrelaxed upon the things of GOD.

Our

Far, far wider then than the mere sinfulness of bodily indulgence, is that abstinence from fleshly lusts by which the soul is to be kept safe in its warfare. The outer life has been altogether turned to evil by the original deflexion from the will of GOD. It is now the instrument by which we may serve self, or sacrifice the inner self to GOD. warfare against self is not a warfare against certain bodily tendencies which bear upon their front the stamp of evil, because the judgment of GOD immediately overtakes the victim of their fascination, and society feels the damage of their indulgence. These tendencies are but a small portion of the instruments of battle. These evil consequences are only a small warning granted by GOD to

check us, and lead us to holy knowledge of the fatuity of all will. Our warfare is against that lies this fleshly nature, that wond sciousness which co-exists throug of the outer frame, the whole pe of the body and the mind. Thi which CHRIST has ransomed, th has quickened, that whereby revealed within us now, to be m inner well-spring of action in th all outer habits, that whereby known and apprehended hereafte for this inner self is partaker o and when the outer being is se trammels, it will shine forth faculties which now with so have to bring into its servic them with the glory of its o fleshly nature which is now our warfare with sin, shall it partaker of "the glorious libe GOD."*"Beloved, now are and it doth not yet appear w

we know that, when CHRIST shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."* Oh! then, let us live with CHRIST in our warfare upon earth. Let us take up continually the blessed discipline of His Cross! Let us abide in continual thanksgiving for the joy of the hope of the redeemed! So shall we be found partakers with Him in the triumph of the resurrection. Though we are strangers and pilgrims here below, He is gone "to prepare a place for us," a home of neverending bliss in our FATHER's house, and He will come again and receive us "if we have continued faithful;""He will receive us unto Himself that where He is, there we may be also."t

SERMON XI

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mation of the work of rede has been gathering a chosen I men, by the creative merits our acts of worship lead us on tion of the city of GOD. It to lay hold of those Divine re are veiled from sight. Now with a loving consciousness, be manifested. Two Apostle city. S. John "saw the holy coming down from GOD out as a bride adorned for her hus tells us that already are we of the Living GOD, the hear