The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

(3) They are a just Repository of all Graces, and therein the Treasury of the Soul. There are Graces of the Spirit whose formal direct Residence is in the Understanding and the Will, as faith it self. And therein are all other Graces radically comprised, they grow from the Root. Howbeit the most of them have their principal Residence in the Affections. In them are they preserved secure and ready for Exercise on all Occasions. And when they are duly Spiritual, there is nothing that tends to their Growth or Improvement, to their cherishing or quickening, which they stand in need of continually, and which God hath made Provision for in his Word, but they readily receive it, lay it up, keep and preserve it. Hereby they come to be filled with Grace, with all Graces; for there is room in them for all the Graces of the Spirit to inhabit; and do readily comply with the Light and Direction of Faith unto their Exercise. When Faith discerns and determines that there is any thing to be done or suffered in a way of Duty unto the Glory of God, the Affections thus disposed, do not shut up or stifle the Graces that are in them, but cheerfully offer them unto their proper Exercise.

(3) They are a just Repository of all Graces, and therein the Treasury of the Soul. There are Graces of the Spirit whose formal direct Residence is in the Understanding and the Will, as faith it self. And therein are all other Graces radically comprized, they grow from the Root. Howbeit the most of them have their principal Residence in the Affections. In them are they preserved secure and ready for Exercise on all Occasions. And when they are duely Spiritual, there is nothing that tends to their Growth or Improvement, to their cherishing or quickening, which they stand in need of continually, and which God hath made Provision for in his Word, but they reaedily receive it, lay it up, keep and preserve it. Hereby they come to be filled with Grace, with all Graces; for there is room in them for all the Graces of the Spirit to inhabit; and do readily comply with the Light and Direction of Faith unto their Exercise. When Faith discerns and determines that there is any thing to be done or suffered in a way of Duty unto the Glory of God, the Affections thus disposed, do not shut up or stifle the Graces that are in them, but chcarefully offer them unto their proper Exercise.