The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

I. To be carnally minded is death. Death as it is absolutely penal, is either Spiritual or Eternal. The first of these it is formally, the other meritoriously. It is formally death spiritual; for they that are carnally minded, are dead in Trespasses and Sins, Eph. 2.1. For those who fulfil the desires of the flesh and of the mind, are by nature Children of wrath, v. 3. are penally under the power of spiritual death. They are dead in sins and the uncircumcision of the flesh, Col. 2.13. And it is death eternal, Meritoriously. For if ye live after the flesh ye shall dye, Rom. 8.13. as the Wages of Sin is death, Chap. 6.23.

I. To be carnally minded is death. Death as it is absolutely poenal, is either Spiritual or Eternal. The first of these it is formally, the other meritoriously. It is formally death spiritual; for they that are carnally minded, are dead in Trespasses and Sins, Eph. 2.1. For those who fulfill the desires of the flesh and of the mind, are by nature Children of wrath, v. 3. are penally under the power of spiritual death. They are dead in sins and the uncircumcision of the flesh, Col. 2.13. And it is death eternal, Meritoriously. For if ye live after the flesh ye shall dye, Rom. 8.13. as the Wages of Sin is death, Chap. 6.23.

The Reason why the Apostle denounces so woeful a doom, so dreadful a Sentence on the carnal mind, he declares in the two next Verses. For the carnal mind is Enmity against God; for it is not subject unto the Law of God, nor indeed can be; so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. If it be thus with the Carnal mind, it is no wonder that to be carnally minded is death; it is not meet it should be any thing else. That which is Enmity against God, is under the Curse of God.