The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

It is utterly impossible we should walk before God, unto his Glory, or with any real peace, comfort or satisfaction in our own Souls, unless our minds are continually exercised with Thoughts of his Almighty Power. Every thing that befalls us, every thing that we hear of, which hath the Least of Danger in it, will discompose our Minds, and either make us tremble like the leaves of the Forrest that are shaken with the wind, or betake our selves to foolish or sinful relief, unless we are firmly established in the Faith hereof. Consider the Promises of God unto the Church which are upon Record, and as yet unaccomplished; consider the present state of the Church in the world, with all that belongs unto it; in all the fears and dangers they are exposed unto, in all the evils they are exercised withal, and we shall ⟨p. 165⟩quickly find, that unless this Sheet-anchor be well fixed, we shall be tossed up and down at all uncertainties, and exposed to most violent Temptations, Rev. 19.6. Unto this end are we called hereunto by God himself, in his Answer unto the despondent complaints of the Church in its greatest dangers and calamities. Isa. 40. 28, 29, 30, 31. Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the Earth fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might, he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings as Eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.

It is utterly impossible we should walk before God, unto his Glory, or with any real peace, comfort or satisfaction in our own Souls, unless our minds are continually exercised with Thoughts of his Almighty Power. Every thing that befalls us, every thing that we hear of, which hath the Least of Danger in it, will discompose our Minds, and either make us tremble like the leaves of the Forrest that are shaken with the wind, or betake our selves to foolish or sinful relief, unless we are firmly established in the Faith hereof. Consider the Promises of God unto the Church which are upon Record, and as yet unaccomplished; consider the present state of the Church in the world, with all that belongs unto it; in all the fears and dangers they are exposed unto, in all the evils they are exercised withall, and we shall