Mighty through God
The best guide of the blind, the surest light of those who are in darkness, the most perfect instructor of the foolish, is faith. But it must be such a faith as is mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds (2 Corinthians 10:4), to the overturning of all the prejudices of corrupt reason, all the false maxims revered among men, all evil customs and habits, all that wisdom of the world which is foolishness with God (1 Corinthians 3:19). It is such a faith as casts down imaginations, that is, reasonings, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and brings into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5).
1771 text
6. The best guide of the blind, the surest light of them that are in darkness, the most perfect instructor of the foolish, is faith. But it must be such a faith as is mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong-holds, to the overturning all the prejudices of corrupt reason, all the false maxims revered among men; all evil customs and habits; all that wisdom of the world which is foolishness with God; as casteth down imaginations (reasonings) and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
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Sermon 17 in the 1771 Works. Romans 2:29. Saint Mary's, Oxford, 1 January 1733.
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