A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

3. Spiritual in the Acts of it: not that all Gospel Obedience, or ⟨p. 49⟩Worship consists only in the internal Acts, and workings of the Mind; for external Worship it self may be spiritual Worship, and so it is when rightly performed, that is, when it is accompanied with, and proceeds from internal; but by Spiritual in its Acts, I mean that which principally consists in the inward Acts of Faith, and Love, and Fear, &c. which is a Serving God in our Spirits^f; yet withal is productive of and manifests it self in an outward behaviour correspondent to those internal workings. See therefore that your Religion do not consist merely in Externals, that you make as much Conscience of inward, and Heart-worship, as outward, and Bodily; of the Actings of Faith, and Love, as of Praying and Hearing; look as much at least to what is within as to what comes out. Do not rest in the outside of Duty, nor satisfy your selves with what you do, when yet it is without life and warmth; have as much regard to the Manner of Performing, as to Performance it self, to the motions of your Hearts, as to the Labour of your Lips or postures of your Bodies. To conclude this direction, let your work in the whole of your conversation be as much about your Hearts^g, as your Lives: be the same in secret that you are in public, the same when under Gods Eye only, that you are in the Face of the World. This I am sure cannot be said to be foolish, and unreasonable, when it is grounded on the greatest reason. God sees in secret^h, looks to the heart, 1 Sam. 16.17. and calls for the heartⁱ, and therefore it is but reason we should look to them too. It is the seat of Sin, the Fountain whence it springs, and therefore must be looked too, that we may prevent the working of it, and mortify the root of it; and it is the seat of Grace; there is no more good in any man than what is in his Heart, such as that is, such he is: now if a mans chief work be about his heart, to watch that, to purify that, to suppress the corruptions of it, to reduce it into order, and keep it in ord to bring it into an holy frame, and maintain it in such a frame, when he hath so much reason for it, it cannot be the effect of Fancy, or a mere pretence.