The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

Again, unto some, Privacy, Secrecy, and Opportunity, are occasions of Temptation and Sin. They are so unto persons under Convictions not wholly turned to God. Many a good Beginning hath been utterly ruined by this occasion and Temptation. Privacy and Opportunity ⟨p. 160⟩have overthrown many such persons in the best of their Resolutions. And they are so unto all persons not yet flagitiously wicked. Cursed fruits proceed every day from these Occasions. We need no other Demonstration of their Power and Efficacy in Tempting unto sin, but the visible Effects of them. And what they are unto any, they may be unto all, if not diligently watched against▪ So the Apostle reflects on the shameful things that are done in the dark, in a concurrence of Secrecy and Opportunity. This therefore gives a Just season unto Thoughts of the Omnipresence and Omniscience of God, and they will not be wanting in some measure in them that are spiritually minded.

Again, unto some, Privacy, Secresy, and Opportunity, are occasions of Temptation and Sin. They are so unto persons under Convictions not wholly turned to God. Many a good Beginning hath been utterly ruined by this occasion and Temptation. Privacy and Opportunity ⟨p. 160⟩have overthrown many such persons in the best of their Resolutions. And they are so unto all persons not yet flagitiously wicked. Cursed fruits proceed every day from these Occasions. We need no other Demonstration of their Power and Efficacy in Tempting unto sin, but the visible Effects of them. And what they are unto any, they may be unto all, if not diligently watched against▪ So the Apostle reflects on the shameful things that are done in the dark, in a concurrence of Secresie and Opportunity. This therefore gives a Just season unto Thoughts of the Omnipresence and Omniscience of God, and they will not be wanting in some measure in them that are spiritually minded.