OP SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. 264 smell of the flowers, the other with the consideration of their various natures, their uses in physical reme- dies, or the like. So it maybe in the hearing of the word. For instance, one may be delighted with the outward administration, another with its spiritual effi- cacy, at the same time. Hence, Austin tells us, that singing in the church was laid aside byAthanasius at Alexandria ; not the people's singing of psalms, but a kind of singing in the reading of the scripture, and some offices of worship, which began then to be in- troduced into the church. And the reason he gave why he did it, was, that the modulation of the voice andmusical tune, might not divert the minds of men from that spiritual affection which is required of them in sacred duties. What there is of real order in the worship of God, as there is that order which is an ef- fect of divine wisdom ; it is suited and useful to spirit- ual affections, because proceeding from the same Spirit, whereby they are internally renewed. 'Behold- ing your order.' Col. ii. 5. Every thing of God's ap- pointment is both helpful and delightful to them. None can say with higher raptures of admiration, How' amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord ! Psal. lxxxiv. 1, 2, than they whose affections are renewed. Yet is not their delight terminated on them, as we shall see immediately. Secondly. ' Men may be delighted in the perform- ance of outward duties of divine warship, because in them they comply with, and give some kind of satis- faction to, their convictions! When conscience is awakened to a, sense of the necessities of such duties, namely, of those wherein divine worship doth consist, it will give the mind no rest or peace in the neglect of them. Let them be attended to in the seasons which 23*
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