The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

First, The Mind and Affections have been changed and tinctured with Devotion by some of the means we have before insisted on. Herein they will one way or other be exercised about Spiritual things, and are ready to receive ⟨p. 297⟩impressions from any thing that Superstition can impose upon them.

First, The Mind and Affections have been changed and tinctured with Devotion by some of the meanes we have before insisted on. Herein they will one way or other be exercised about Spiritual things, and are ready to receive ⟨p. 297⟩impressions from any thing that Superstition can impose upon them.

Secondly, They are by Error and false Information, set at liberty from the only Rule of their Actings and Exercise, that is the Word of God. Men satisfied themselves, that so their Affections were engaged about things Spiritual and Heavenly, it was no matter at all, whether the way of their Exercise was directed by the Scripture or no. Having thus lost their Guide and their Way every Ig•u Fatuus, every wandering Meteor, allures them to follow its Conduct into Foolish Superstitions. Nothing almost is so ridiculous, nothing so Horrid and difficult, that they will not embrace under the notion of things Spiritual and Heavenly.

Secondly, They are by Errour and false Information, set at liberty from the onely Rule of their Actings and Exercise, that is the Word of God. Men satisfyed themselves, that so their Affections were ingaged about things Spiritual and Heavenly, it was no matter at all, whether the way of their Exercise was directed by the Scripture or no. Having thus lost their Guide and their Way every Ig•u Fatuus, every wandring Meteor, allures them to follow its Conduct into Foolish Superstitions. Nothing almost is so ridiculous, nothing so Horrid and difficult, that they will not embrace under the notion of things Spiritual and Heavenly.