Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded Chapter 3 Modernized

Let a man who is industriously engaged in his calling, test himself by this rule every evening. Let him consider what his thoughts have been about his earthly circumstances, and what they have been about spiritual things; and based on that, ask himself whether he is spiritually minded or not. Don't be deceived; "as a man thinks, so is he." Pro 23.7 And if we account it a strange thing that our thoughts should be more exercised about spiritual things than about the affairs of our callings, then we must not think it strange if, when we come to the trial, we cannot find that we have either "life" or "peace."