The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

(2) It is the proper Adjunct and Evidence of it. Would any one know whether he be Spiritually alive unto God, with the Life of Sanctification and Holiness? The Communication of it unto him, being by an Almighty Act of creating Power, Ephes 2.10. It is not easily discernible, so as to help us to make a right Judgement of it, from its Essence or Form. But where things are in themselves indiscernible, we may know them from their proper and inseparable Adjuncts, which are therefore called by the Names of the Essence or the Form it self. Such is this being Spiritually-Minded with respect unto the Life of Sanctification; it is an inseparable Property and Adjunct of it, whereby it infallibly evidenceth if self unto them in whom it is. In these two respects it is the Life of Sanctification.

(2) It is the proper Adjunct and Evidence of it. Would any one know whether he be Spiritually alive unto God, with the Life of Sanctification and Holiness? The Communication of it unto him, being by an Almighty Act of creating Power, Ephes 2.10. It is not easily discernable, so as to help us to make a right Judgement of it, from its Essence or Form. But where things are in themselves indiscernable, we may know them from their proper and inseperable Adjuncts, which are therefore called by the Names of the Essence or the Form it self. Such is this being Spiritually-Minded with respect unto the Life of Sanctification; it is an inseperable Property and Adjunct of it, whereby it infallibly evidenceth if self unto them in whom it is. In these two respects it is the Life of Sanctification.

(3) Life is taken for the Comforts and Refreshments of Life; So speaks the Apostle, 1 Thes. 3.8. Now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord, now our Life will do us good, we have the Comforts, the Refreshments, and the Joys of it. Non est vivere, Sed valere vita. The Comforts and Satisfactions of Life, are more Life than Life it self. It is Life, that is, that which makes Life to be so, bringing in that Satisfaction, those Refreshments unto it, which make it pleasant and desirable. And I do suppose this is that which is principally intended in the Words of the Apostle; it is Life, a cheerful joyous Life, a Life worth the living. In Explication and Confirmation whereof, it is added, that it is Peace also.