The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

(2) It will fix our Thoughts and Affections upon the Grace and Love of God, communicating such an inestimable Mercy unto us, as is a Sense of his Love, which is the only means for the Preservation of a Relish of it in our Hearts. He who is in this Frame of Mind, will remember, call over, and ruminate upon all such gracious Pledges of divine Favour; as David is often remembering and calling over what he received in such Places, as in the Land of the Hermonites, and at the Hill Mizar, Psal. 42. This is the great way whereby this Treasure may be preserved.

(2) It will fix our Thoughts and Affections upon the Grace and Love of God, communicating such an inestimable Mercy unto us, as is a Sense of his Love, which is the only meanes for the Preservation of a Relish of it in our Hearts. He who is in this Frame of Mind, will remember, call over, and ruminate upon all such gracious Pledges of divine Favour; as David is often remembring and calling over what he received in such Places, as in the Land of the Hermonites, and at the Hill Missar, Psal. 42. This is the great way whereby this Treasure may be preserved.

(3) A Person so minded, and he alone, will have a due Valuation of such Intimations and Pledges of Divine Love. Those who are full of other things, whose Affections cleave unto them, do never esteem Heavenly Mercies and Privileges, as they ought▪ The full Soul loatheth the Honey-Comb. And God is well pleased, when an high Valuation is put upon his kindness; as he is greatly provoked by the contrary Frame; which indeed nothing but infinite Patience ⟨p. 328⟩could bear withal. It is an high Provocation of God, when men are regardless of, and unthankful for Outward temporal Mercies; when they receive them and use them as if they were their own, that they were Lords of them, at least, that they are due unto them. Much more is he provoked with our regardlessness of the least of those Mercies, which are the peculiar purchase of the Blood of his Son, and the Effects of his Eternal Love and Grace. He alone who is spiritually-Minded, valueth, prizeth, and lays up these inestimable Jewels in a due manner.