§. Sect. 6 That the duties of our callings must be performed after a right manner, and first, with heavenly minds.§. Sect. 6 That the duties of our callings must bee performed after a right manner, and first, with heauenly mindes.
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§. Sect. 6 That the duties of our callings must be performed after a right manner, and first, with heavenly minds.
§. Sect. 6 That the duties of our callings must bee performed after a right manner, and first, with heauenly mindes.
And these things are to be observed in the labours of our callings, in respect of their causes both efficient and final. In the next place our care must be, that we perform them after a right manner; unto which is required that we be exercised in our earthly business, with heavenly minds and affections, and not suffer our worldly employments so wholly to take us up both in soul and body, as that thereby we should be hindered from having our conversation in heaven. But like Citizens of heaven, and pilgrims on earth, whilst our bodies are travailing in worldly employments, we must have our minds, hearts and affections lifted up in spiritual and heavenly meditations and desires, contemplating and longing after the joys of our own country, and not so much minding the things beneath, as the things above, where Christ sitteth at the right