The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

(1) As to the immediate ground and Cause of it, which is our Justification, not our Sanctification, Rom. 5.1. Being justified by Faith, we have Peace with God. So Christ alone is our Peace, as he who hath made Peace for us by the Blood of the Cross, Ephes. 2.14, 15. Hereof our being Spiritually-Minded is no way the cause or reason, only it is an Evidence and Pledge of it, as we shall see.

(1) As to the immediate ground and Cause of it, which is our Justification, not our Sanctification, Rom. 5.1. Being justifyed by Faith, we have Peace with God. So Christ alone is our Peace, as he who hath made Peace for us by the Blood of the Cross, Ephes. 2.14, 15. Hereof our being Spiritually-Minded is no way the cause or reason, only it is an Evidence and Pledge of it, as we shall see.

(2) Not as unto the formal nature of it. Peace with God through the Blood of Christ, is one thing; and Peace in our Minds through an holy Frame in them, is another. The former is communicated unto us by an immediate Act of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us, Rom. 5.5. The latter is an Effect on our Minds begun, and gradually carried on, by the Duties we have before at large declared. The immediate Actings of the holy Spirit, in sealing us, witnessing unto our Adoption, and being an Earnest of Glory, are required unto the former; Our own Sedulity and Diligence in Duties and the Exercise of all Grace, are required unto the latter.

(2) Not as unto the formal nature of it. Peace with God through the Blood of Christ, is one thing; and Peace in our Minds through an holy Frame in them, is another. The former is communicated unto us by an immediate Act of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us,