Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

2. In not bending of their minds to this work. It may be the mind looks up, but it's so feeble, that like an arrow shot from a bow weakly bent, it reacheth not the mark. It is the wise mans counsel,¹ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all they might. O that Gods people should be so lazy, dull, sluggish, slothful in this spiritual work! As Jesus said to the multitudes concerning John, ²What went ye out into the wilderness to see? So may I ask believers in their looking unto Jesus, What went ye out to see? when you crawl, & move, as if you had no hearts nor spirits within you, whom go ye forth to see? what,³ him that is the Lord of glory? what, him that is the brightness of his Fathers glory, and the express image of his person? what, are such heavy & lazy aspects fit to take in such a glory as this is? you see in what large streams your thoughts fly forth to other things. & are you only languishing, weak, and feeble, in things of so great concernment? Oh that Christians should be cold in spirituals, & hot in the pursuit of earthly temporal things.

2. In not bending of their minds to this work. It may be the mind looks up, but it's so feeble, that like an arrow shot from a bow weakly bent, it reacheth not the mark. It is the wise mans counsel,¹ Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all they might. O that Gods people should be so lazie, dull, sluggish, sloathfull in this spiritual work! As Jesus said to the multitudes concerning John, ²What went ye out into the wilderness to see? So may I ask believers in their looking unto Jesus, What went ye out to see? when you crawle, & move, as if you had no hearts nor spirits within you, whom go ye forth to see? what,³ him that is the Lord of glory? what, him that is the brightness of his Fathers glory, and the express image of his person? what, are such heavy & lazy aspects fit to take in such a glory as this is? you see in what large streams your thoughts fly forth to other things. & are you only languishing, weak, and feeble, in things of so great concernment? Oh that Christians should be cold in spirituals, & hot in the pursuit of earthly temporal things.