A faith of the operation of God
Another truth, which naturally follows from what has been said, is that none shall obtain the honor that comes from God unless his heart is circumcised by faith, even a faith of the operation of God (Colossians 2:12). He refuses to be any longer led by his senses, appetites, or passions, or even by that blind leader of the blind (Matthew 15:14), so idolized by the world, natural reason. He lives and walks by faith (2 Corinthians 5:7). He directs every step as seeing him who is invisible (Hebrews 11:27). He does not look at the things that are seen (2 Corinthians 4:18), which are temporal, but at the things that are not seen, which are eternal. And he governs all his desires, designs, and thoughts, all his actions and his manner of life, as one who has entered within the veil, where Jesus sits at the right hand of God (Hebrews 10:12).
1771 text
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.
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Sermon 17 in the 1771 Works. Romans 2:29. Saint Mary's, Oxford, 1 January 1733.
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