The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

Pretences of Business and necessary Occasions, Engagements of Trade, carnal Relations, and the common course of communication in the world, with a supposition that all sorts of Society are allowed for Diversion, have cast out the Remembrance of God from the minds of most, even then when men cannot be preserved from sin without it.

Pretences of Business and necessary Occasions, Ingagements of Trade, carnal Relations, and the common course of communication in the world, with a supposition that all sorts of Society are allowed for Diversion, have cast out the Remembrance of God from the minds of most, even then when men cannot be preserved from sin without it.

This hath sullied the Beauty of Gospel Conversation amongst the most, and left in very few any prevalent Evidence of being spiritually minded.

Wherefore, as unto them who either by their voluntary choice or necessity of their Occasions, do enter and engage promiscuously into all Societies and Companies, let them know assuredly, that if they awe not their hearts and spirits continually with the Thoughts and apprehensions of the Omnipresence and Omniscience of God, that he is always with them, and his Eye always upon them, they will not be preserved from Snares and sinful miscarriages.

Wherefore, as unto them who either by their voluntary choice or necessity of their Occasions, do enter and engage pomiscuously into all Societies and Companies, let them know assuredly, that if they awe not their hearts and spirits continually with the Thoughts and apprehensions of the Omnipresence and Omniscience of God, that he is alwayes with them, and his Eye alwayes upon them, they will not be preserved from Snares and sinful miscarriages.