The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

These things are so; and they have been by many both piously and elegantly illustrated. Howbeit they are above the Capacities of ordinary Christians, they know not how to manage them in their Minds, nor exercise their Thoughts about them. They cannot reduce them unto present usefulness, nor make them subservient unto the exercise and increase of Grace. And the Truth is, the Scripture gives us another Notion of Heaven and Glory, not contrary unto this, not inconsistent with it, but more suited unto the Faith and Experience of Believers, and which alone can convey a true and useful sense of these things unto our Minds. This therefore is diligently to be enquired into, and firmly stated in our Thoughts and Affections.

These things are so; and they have been by many both piously and elegantly illustrated. Howbeit they are above the Capacities of ordinary Christians, they know not how to manage them in their Minds, nor exercise their Thoughts about them. They cannot reduce them unto present usefulness, nor make them subservient unto the exercise and encrease of Grace. And the Truth is, the Scripture gives us another Notion of Heaven and Glory, not contrary unto this, not inconsistent with it, but more suited unto the Faith and Experience of Believers, and which alone can convey a true and useful sence of these things unto our Minds. This therefore is diligently to be enquired into, and firmly stated in our Thoughts and Affections.

4. The principal Notion which the Scripture gives us of the State of Heavenly Blessedness, and which the meanest Believers are capable of improving in daily practice, is, That Faith shall be turned into Sight, and Grace into Glory. We walk now by Faith and not by Sight, saith the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5.7. Wherefore this is the Difference between our present and our future state, that Sight hereafter shall ⟨p. 104⟩supply the room of Faith,