3414 OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. they are all sweet, savory, pleasant ; the affections taste them immediately, as the palate doth meat. (3.) They are a just repository of all graces, and therein the treasury of the soul. There are graces of the spirit, whose formal direct residence is in the understanding and the will, as faith itself. Andtherein are all other graces radically comprised ; they grow from that root. Howbeit the most of them have their principal residence in the affections. In them are they preserved secure and ready for exercise, on all occa- sions: and when they are duly spiritual, there is nothing that tends to their growth or improvement, to their cherishing or quickening, which they stand in need of continually, and which God hath made provis- ionfor in his word, but they readily receive it, lay it up, keep and preserve it. Hereby they come to be filled with grace, with all graces ; for there is room in them for all the graces, of the spirit to inhabit; and they readily comply with the light and direction of faith to their exercise. When faith discerns and deter- mines that there is any thing to be done or suffered in a way of duty to the glory of God, the affections thus disposed do not shut up or stifle the graces that are in them, but cheerfully offer them to their proper exer- cise. These are some of those things, which our affections, conformed to heavenly things, will attain to. And thus it is with affections spiritually renewed ; by being fixed on things spiritual and heavenly, they are more and more conformed to them, made like them, and become more spiritual and heavenly themselves. It is not thus with them whose affections have only an occasional change wrought upon them by the means before described, but are not spiritually renewed; yea,
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