The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

THE Second thing required that we may be Spiritually Minded, as unto the Interest of our Affections therein, is the Object of them about which they are conversant, and whereunto they do adhere. What this is materially, or what are the Spiritual things which our Affections are to be set upon, hath been declared already under the Consideration of the Object of our Thoughts and Meditations, for they are the same. Yea, as hath been intimated, the fixing of our Affections upon them, is the Spring and cause of our Thoughts about them. But that which we shall now enquire into, is the true Notion and Consideration of Spiritual and Heavenly things, which renders them the formal proper Object of Spiritual Affections, and is the reason of their Adherence unto them. For as was intimated before, men may have false Notions of Spiritual things, under which they may like them and embrace them with unrenewed Affections. Wherefore we shall enquire into some of those Considerations of Heavenly things, under which Affections Spiritually renewed do satisfactorily cleave unto them with Delight and Complacency.

THE Second thing required that we may be Spiritually Minded, as unto the Interest of our Affections therein, is the Object of them about which they are conversant, and whereunto they do adhere. What this is materially, or what are the Spiritual things which our Affections are to be set upon, hath been declared already under the Consideration of the Object of our Thoughts and Meditations, for they are the same. Yea, as hath been intimated, the fixing of our Affections upon them, is the Spring and cause of our Thoughts about them. But that which we shall now enquire into, is the true Notion and Consideration of Spiritual and Heavenly things, which renders them the formal proper Object of Spiritual Affections, and is the reason of their Adherance unto them. For as was intimated before, men may have false Notions of Spiritual things, under which they may like them and embrace them with unrenewed Affections. Wherefore we shall enquire into some of those Considerations of Heavenly things, under which Affections Spiritually renewed do satisfactorily cleave unto them with Delight and Complacency.

(1.) And the First is, that as they comprehend God in Christ, and all other things, as deriving from him, and tending unto him, they have an infinite Beauty, Goodness, and