The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

There are some so inordinately subject to Anger and passion therein, as if they were absolutely under the Power and Dominion of it; yet do they also know how to be angry, and sin not in being angry at Sin in themselves and others. Yea what Indignation, yea what Revenge, 2 Cor. 7.7. Yea, God is pleased sometimes to leave somewhat more than ordinary of the Power of Corruption in one Affection, that it may be an Occasion of the Continual Exercise of Grace in the other Affections. Yet are they all sanctified in their Degree, that which is relieved as well as that which doth relieve. And therefore as the remainder of Sin in them that believe is called the old Man, which is to be crucified in all the Members of it, because of its adherence unto the whole Person in all its Powers and Faculties; So the Grace implanted in our natures, is called the New Man, there being nothing in us that is not seasoned and affected with it. As nothing in our Natures escaped the taint of Sin, so, nothing in our Natures is accepted from the Renovation that is by Grace. He in whom any one Affection is utterly unrenewed, hath no one graciously renewed in him. Let men take heed how they indulge to any depraved Affection, for it will be an unavoidable Impeachment of their Sincerity. Think, not to say with Naaman, God be merciful unto me in this thing, in all others I will be for him.

There are some so inordinately subject to Anger and passion therein, as if they were absolutely under the Power and Dominion of it; yet do they also know how to be angry, and sin not in being angry at Sin in themselves and others. Yea what Indignation, yea what Revenge, 2 Cor. 7.7. Yea, God is pleased sometimes to leave somewhat more than ordinary of the Power of Corruption in one Affection, that it may be an Occasion of the Continual Exercise of Grace in the other Affections. Yet are they all sanctifyed in their Degree, that which is relieved as well as that which doth relieve. And therefore as the remainder of Sin in them that believe is called the old Man, which is to be crucifyed in all the Members of it, because of its adherence unto the whole Person in all its Powers and Faculties; So the Grace implanted in our natures, is called the New Man, there being nothing in us that is not seasoned and affected with it. As nothing in our Natures escaped the taint of Sin, so, nothing in our Natures is accepted from the Renovation that is by Grace. He in whom any one Affection is utrerly unrenewed, hath no one graciously renewed in him. Let men take heed how they indulge to any depraved Affection, for it will be an unavoidable Impeachment of their Sincerity. Think, not to say with Naaman, God be merciful unto me in this thing, in all others I will be for him.