256 OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. (2.) Labor to retain them, or a sense of them, upon your hearts and consciences. You have got nothing by losing so many of them already ; and if you pro- teed in their neglect, after a while you will hear of them no more. (3.) Put no more in them than belongs to them. Donot presently conclude that your state is good, be- cause you have been affected at the hearing of the word, or under a sickness, or in a danger. Hereon many think that now all is well with them, wherewith they please themselves, until they are wholly immers- ed in their former security. Secondly, We may consider the difference that is between the habitual change of the affections before described, and that renovation bygrace which renders them spiritual ; and this is of great concernment to us all, to inquire into it with diligence. Multitudes are herein deceived, and that to their ruin; for they re- solve their present peace in, and build their hopes of eternal life on, such a change in themselves as will not abide the trial. This difference, therefore, is to be examined by scripture light, and the experience of them that do believe. And, 1. There is a double universality with respect to the spiritual renovation of our actions. (1.) That which is subjective, with respect to the affections themselves : and, (2.) That which is objective, with respect to spiritual things. First. Sanctification extends itself to the whole spi- rit, soul, and body.. 1 Thes. v. 23. When we say that We are sanctified in part only, we do not say that any part, power, or faculty of the soul is unsanctified, but only that the work is not absolutely perfect in any
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