The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

(2) There is a Life of Sanctification. As Life in the foregoing sense in opposed unto Death spiritual as unto the the Guilt of it, and the condemnatory Sentence of Death ⟨p. 321⟩wherewith it was accompanied; so in this it is opposed unto it, as unto its internal Power on, and Efficacy in the Soul, to keep it under an Impotency unto all Acts of Spiritual Life, yea, an Enmity against them. This is that Life wherewith we are quickened by Christ Jesus, when before we were dead in Trespasses and Sins, Ephes. 2.1, 5. Of this Life, the Apostle treats directly in this place; for having in the first four verses of the Chapter declared the Life of Justification in the nature and Causes of it; in the following, he treats of Death spiritual in Sin, with the Life of Sanctification, whereby we are freed from it.

(2) There is a Life of Sanctification. As Life in the foregoing sense in opposed unto Death spiritual as unto the the Guilt of it, and the condemnatory Sentence of Death ⟨p. 321⟩wherewith it was accompanied; so in this it is opposed unto it, as unto its internal Power on, and Efficacy in the Soul, to keep it under an Impotency unto all Acts of Spiritual Life, yea, an Enmity against them. This is that Life wherewith we are quickned by Christ Jesus, when before we were dead in Trespasses and Sins, Ephes. 2.1, 5. Of this Life, the Apostle treats directly in this place; for having in the first four verses of the Chapter declared the Life of Justification in the nature and Causes of it; in the following, he treats of Death spiritual in Sin, with the Life of Sanctification, whereby we are freed from it.

And to be Spiritually-Minded is this Life in a double Sense.