OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. 71 vigor of their spirits, about their affairs all the day long ; and, so they can pray in the morning and eve- ning, with some thoughts sometimes of spiritual things, occasionally administered, suppose they acquit themselves very well. As if a man should pretend that his great design is, to prepare himself for a voyage to :a far country, where is his patrimony and his inheritance ! but all his thoughts and contrivances are about some few trifles, which, if indeed he intend his voyage, he must leave behind him; and of his main design he scarce thinketh at all. We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory but is it any evidence we really design it, if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave hehind us, and have only occa- sional thoughts of things above ? I shall elsewhere show, if God will, how men may be spiritually minded in their earthly affairs. If some relief may not be thence obtained, I cannot tell what to say or answer for them, whose thoughts of spiritual things do not hold proportion with, yea, exceed them, which they lay out about their callings. This whole rule is grounded on that of our Saviour, Mat. vi. 31-34. ' Take no thought, saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink l or wherewith we shall be clothed? But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the ` mor- row.' When we have done all we can, when we have made the best of themwe are able, all earthly things, as unto our interest in them, amount to no more, but what we eat, what we drink, and wherewith we are clothed. About these things our Saviour forbids us to take any thought, not absolutely, but with a double
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