The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

Let none say, it is otherwise with them. Men grow Cold and Negligent in the Duties of Gospel Worship, public and private; which is to reject Gospel Light. Let them say and pretend what they please, that in other things, in their Minds and Conversations, it is well with them; indeed it is not so. Sin will, sin doth one way or other, make an increase in them proportionate unto these Decays; and will sooner or later discover it self so to do. And themselves if they are not utterly hardened, may greatly discover it, inwardly in their Peace, or outwardly in their Lives.

Let none say, it is otherwise with them. Men grow Cold and Negligent in the Duties of Gospel Worship, publick and private; which is to reject Gospel Light. Let them say and pretend what they please, that in other things, in their Minds and Conversations, it is well with them; indeed it is not so. Sin will, sin doth one way or other, make an encrease in them proportionate unto these Decayes; and will sooner or later discover it self so to do. And themselves if they are not utterly hardened, may greatly discover it, inwardly in their Peace, or outwardly in their Lives.

3. Where Men are resolved not to see, the greater the Light is that shines about them, the faster they must close they Eyes. All Atheism springs from a Resolution not to see things invisible and Eternal. Love of sin, a resolved continuance in the practice of it, the effectual Power of vicious Inclinations, in opposition unto all that is Good, make it the Interest of such men that there should be no God to call them to an account. For a Supreme unavoidable Judge, an Eternal Rewarder of Good and Evil, is inseparable from the first notion of a Divine Being. Whereas therefore the most glorious Light and uncontrollable Evidence of these things shines forth in the Scripture, men that will abide by their interest to love and live in sin, must close their Eyes with all the Arts and Powers that they have, or else they will pierce into their Minds unto their Torment. This they do by down-right Atheism, which alone pretends to give them security against the Light of Divine Revelation. Against all other convictions, they might take shelter from their, fears, under less degrees of it.