Two treatises of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs. The first of earthly-mindedness

That the more spiritual any Truth is, or any Ordinance is, or any Company is, the more doth the soul delight in it: One that is used to God, and converses with God, when such a one meets with a Truth that hath much of God in it, Oh how it closes with that Truth! when it meets with an Ordinance that hath much of God in it, when it meets with Company that hath much of God in it, how doth this soul delight in it! This is suitable to the heart that converses much with God, saith the soul, I have had sweet walks with God, now me thinks I come into such a Company, I see the very Image of God in these, and Oh how sweet and delightsome are these to me! and so for Truths, and Ordinances, the more spiritual they are the more such a one doth delight in them: whereas a carnal heart that walks according to the flesh, in the way of the world, if there be some Truths that have some kind of humanity in them, as now, some solid discourse that shows strength of reason, or strength of judgment in a Sermon, he will take ⟨p. 315⟩delight in that, if there be any Wit, Rhetoric, Eloquence he takes delight in that; but for spiritual truths there's no such delight in them except they be clothed with some humane excellency. But now, those that are spiritual, the more spiritual any thing is, the more delight they take in it: As for Ordinances, they are but dry meat to those that are carnal except there be something external; bring the Ordinances in the plain simplicity of the Gospel to them, where there is only communion of Saints, sitting about a Table, and eating a piece of bread, and drinking a little wine, they see no excellency there: But a gracious heart, the less of man he sees in an Ordinance, and the more of God, the more he closes with them, and takes delight in them: here's one now that walks with God.