The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

Unto all others also, unto Believers themselves, these things are evil, such as they expect a Deliverance from in Heaven and Glory. And there is no doubt, but it is lawful for us, and meet that we should contemplate on them, as those which will give us a Deliverance from all outward Troubles, Death it self and all that leads thereunto. Heaven is promised as Rest unto them that are troubled. 2 Thes. 1.7. It is our Duty under all our. ⟨p. 98⟩Sufferings, Reproaches, Persecutions, Troubles and Sorrows, to raise up our minds unto the contemplation of that state, wherein we shall be freed from them all. It is a blessed Notion of Heaven, that God shall therein wipe away all tears from our eyes, Rev. 7.17. or remove far from us all causes of sorrow. And it would be unto our Advantage, if we did accustom our minds more unto this kind of Relief than we do; If upon the Incursion of fears, dangers, sorrows, we did more readily retreat unto Thoughts of that State wherein we shall be freed from them all; even this most inferior consideration of it, would render the Thoughts of it more familiar, and the thing it self more useful unto us. Much better it were, than on such occasions to be exercised with heartless complaints, uncertain hopes, and fruitless contrivances.

Unto all others also, unto Believers themselves, these things are evil, such as they expect a Deliverance from in Heaven and Glory. And there is no doubt, but it is lawful for us, and meet that we should contemplate on them, as those which will give us a Deliverance from all outward Troubles, Death it self and all that leads thereunto. Heaven is promised as Rest unto them that are troubled. 2 Thes. 1.7. It is our Duty under all our. ⟨p. 98⟩Sufferings, Reproaches, Persecutions, Troubles and Sorrows, to raise up our minds unto the contemplation of that state, wherein we shall be freed from them all. It is a blessed Notion of Heaven, that God shall therein wipe away all tears from our eyes,