apQ OP SPIIi,ITUAL MINDÉISN$SS. Some who seem to have had a mighty change wrought in them by a superstitious devotion, do yet walk in the spirit of Cairi towards all the disciples of Christ, as it is with the principal devotionalists in the church of Rome ; and elsewhere we may see some go soberly about the persecution and destruction of other Christians. Some will cherish one secret lust or oth, er, which they cannot but know to be pernicious to their ,souls. Some love the praise of men, which will never per- mit them to be truly spiritually minded ; so our Sa- viour testifieth of some, that they could not believe, because they loved the praise of men. This was the known vice of all the ancient philosophers; they had many of them, on the principles of reason, and by se- vere exercise, subdued their affections to great mod- eration about temporary things ; but in themean time, were all of them slaves to vain glory, and the praise of men, until by the public observation of it, and some contradictions in their lives to their pretences to vir- tue, they lost that, also, among wise and considerate men. And generally, if men, not spiritually renewed, were able to search themselves, they would find that some of their affections are so far from having any change wrought in them, as, that they are a quiet habitation for sin, where it eierciseth its rule and do: minion. Secondly. There is a universality that is object- ive in spiritual things, with respect to the renovatioït of our affections ; that is, affections spiritually renew- ed fix themselves upon, and cleave to, all spiritual things in their proper places, and to their proper ends. T''or the ground and reason of our adherence to any one of them, are the same with respect to them all ; that
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