The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

3. All things in Religion both in Faith and Practice are to be the Objects of such Thoughts. As they are proposed or occur unto our Minds in great variety on all sorts of occasions, so we ought to give them entertainment in our Meditations. To hear things, to have them proposed unto us, it may be, in the way of a Divine Ordinance, and to let them slip out or flow from us, as Water that is poured into a leaking Vessel, is the Ruin of many Souls. I shall therefore choose out some Instances as was before proposed, of those things which I judge that they who would be Spiritually minded, ought to abide and abound in Thoughts concerning them.

3. All things in Religion both in Faith and Practice are to be the Objects of such Thoughts. As they are proposed or occurr unto our Minds in great variety on all sorts of occasions, so we ought to give them entertainment in our Meditations. To hear things, to have them proposed unto us, it may be, in the way of a Divine Ordinance, and to let them slip out or flow from us, as Water that is poured into a leaking Vessel, is the Ruine of many Souls. I shall therefore choose out some Instances as was before proposed, of those things which I judge that they who would be Spiritually minded, ought to abide and abound in Thoughts concerning them.

1. It is our Duty greatly to mind the things that are above, eternal things, both as unto their Reality, their present State, and our future enjoyment of them. Herein consists the Life of this Grace and Duty. To be Heavenly Minded, that is, to mind the things of Heaven, and to be Spiritually Minded is all one; Or it is the effect of being Spiritually Minded, as unto its Original and essence; or the first proper actings of it. It is the Cause of it, as unto its growth and Degrees; and it is the Evidence of it in Experience. Nor do I understand how it is possible for a Man to place his chief Interest in things above, and not have many thoughts of them. It is the great Advice of the Apostle on a supposition of our Interest in Christ and Conformity unto him, Col. 3.1, 2. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things that are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. Set your Affections (or your Thoughts) Mind much, the things that are above. It becomes those who through the virtue of the Resurrection of Christ are raised unto Newness of Life, to have their Thoughts exercised on the State of things above, with respect unto the Presence of Christ among them. And the singular use of our Prospect into these things, or our Meditations on them, he instructs us in,