t,76 OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. occasionally changed, and wherein the great exercise of them consists in the duties of religious worship. I have declared what are the grounds and reasons, whence ü en of únrenewe'd minds delight ofttimes in the duties of divine worship, and are diligent in the performance of them. From these, and the like considerations, it may be made manifest that the greatest part of the devotion that is in the world, doth not spring from the spiritual renovation of the minds of men, without which it is not acceptedwith God. That which remains to give in instance, further evidence to the discovery we are in the pursuit of, is, what are the grounds and reasons whereon those, whose minds and affections are spiritu- ally renewed, do delight in the institutions of divine worship; and attend to their observance with great heed and diligence'? And because this is an inquiry of great importance, and is of great use to be stated in other cases, as well as that before us ; I shall treat of it by itself in the ensuing chapter, that the reader may themore distinctly comprehend it, both in the nature of the doctrine concerning it, and in the place it holds in our present discourse. CHAPTER XV. Delight of believers in the holy institutions of divine worship.. Thegrounds and reasons thereof. The evi- dence of being spiritually minded thereby, 8pc. THAT all true believers, whose minds are spiritually renewed; have a singular delight in all the institutions and ordinances of divine worship, is fully evident, both in the examples of the' saints in the scripture, and their own experience, which they will never forego.
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