The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

Hence Men walk and talk, as if the World were all, when Comparatively it is nothing.

Hence Men walk and talke, as if the World were all, when Comparatively it is nothing.

And when men come with their warmed Affections reeking with thoughts of these things unto the performance of, or attendance unto any Spiritual Duty, it is very Difficult for them, if not impossible to stir up any Grace unto a Due and vigorous exercise. Unless this plausible Advantage which the World hath obtained of insinuating it self and its Occasions into the Minds of Men, so as to fill them and Possess them, be watched against, and obviated, so far, at least, as that it may not transform the Mind into its own Image and likeness this Grace of being Spiritually-Minded which is Life and Peace cannot be attained nor kept unto it's due Exercise.

And when men come with their warmed Affections reeking with thoughts of these things unto the performance of, or attendance unto any Spiritual Duty, it is very Difficult for them, if not impossible to stir up any Grace unto a Due and vigourous exercise. Unless this plausible Advantage which the World hath obtained of insinuating it self and its Occasions into the Mindes of Men, so as to fill them and Possesse them, be watched against, and obviated, so far, at least, as that it may not transform the Mind into its own Image and likeness this Grace of being Spiritually-Minded which is Life and Peace cannot be attained nor kept unto it's due Exercise.

Nor can we be, any of us, delivered from this Snare, at this season, without a watchful endeavour to keep and preserve our Minds in the Constant Contemplation of ⟨image 4⟩things Spiritual and Heavenly, proceeding from the prevalent adherence of our Affections unto them, as will appear in the ensuing discourse.