~6 T'he Life of GOD inclination to follow that religon which 1s in fa£hio~1, or a lazy indifferency and -unconcernednefs whether things be fo or not. l\1en are unwilling to quarrel with the religion of their country; and fi.nce all their neighbours are chrifl:ians, they are . .content to be fo too: but they are feldom at the pains to confider the evidences Df thofe truths, or to ponder the impor– tance ·and tendency of them: and thence lt is that they have fo little influence on the1r affeCtions and praCtice. Thofe .fpi– rit le/s and paralytick thoughts (as one cloth rightly tern1 t_hem) are not able to n1ove ithe will, aPd direct the hand. We n1ufl: therefore endeavour to work up our minds to a ferious belief and full perfuafion of tdivine truths, unto a fenfe and feeling of fpiritual things. Our thoughts n1ufl: dwell upon them, till we be both COJ!vinced of them, and deeply affected with them. Let us urge forward our fpirits, and make thetn -approach the invi:Gble world ; and fix our n1inds upon immaterial things, . till we clearly perceive that thefe are no dreams, nay that all things arc drean1s and iha– dows befides then1. When \VC look about · us , and · behold the beauty and magni– ficence of this goodly frame, the on.1er and harmony of the whole creation; let
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