The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

When after this Preparation, you find your selves yet perplexed and entangled, not able comfortably to persist in Spiritual Thoughts, unto your Refreshment, take these two Directions for your Relief.

1. Cry and Sigh to God for Help and Relief. Bewail the darkness, weakness and instability of your Minds, so as to groan within your selves for Deliverance. And if your designed Medi••ions do issue only in a renewed gracious sense of your own Weakness and Insufficiency, with Application unto God for Supplies of Strength, they are by no ⟨image 100⟩means lost as unto a Spiritual account. The thoughts of Hezekiah in his Meditations did not seem to have any great Order or consistency, when he so expressed them; Like a Crane or a Swallow so did I chatter; I did mourn as a Dove: Mine eyes failed with looking upwards; O Lord, I am oppressed, undertake for me; Isa. 38.14. When the Soul labours sincerely for Communion with God, but sinks into broken confused thoughts under the weight of its own weakness, yet if he looks to God for relief, his chattering and Mourning will be accepted with God, and profitable unto himself.

1. Cry and Sigh to God for Help and Relief. Bewail the darkness, weakness and instability of your Minds, so as to groan within your selves for Deliverance. And if your designed Medi••ions do issue only in a renewed gracious sense of your own Weakness and Insufficiency, with Application unto God for Supplyes of Strength, they are by no ⟨image 100⟩means lost as unto a Spiritual account. The thoughts of Hezekiah in his Meditations did not seem to have any great Order or consistency, when he so exprest them; Like a Crane or a Swallow so did I chatter; I did mourn as a Dove: Mine eyes failed with looking upwards; O Lord, I am oppressed, undertake for me;