A Big Contrast

Status
Not open for further replies.

greenbaggins

Puritan Board Doctor
Jeremiah Burroughs contrasts the earthly-minded man and the heavenly-minded man.

The apostle would have godly men to use the world as if they used it not. Contrarily, an earthly-minded man uses spiritual things as he used them not. How an earthly-minded man's heart is in spiritual things, so a spiritual mind is in earthly things...an earthly man is earthly in all that he does do, both in earthly and spiritual things; and a spiritually-minded man is spiritual in all he does, both in spiritual and in earthly things...I grant that the best of the saints may have some earthliness in spiritual things, but I speak of the predominance (A Treatise of Earthly-Mindedness, 14,16-7).​
 
I picked this book up at a conference on Sabbath keeping last year. How appropriate. It has been very helpful for elevating my earthly mind, when my god is my appetite, and my glory is my shame.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top