24. And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted greatest.
SEE how worldly Thoughts will croud in, if we do not watch, even when we are engaged in the most serious acts of Worship! And hast not thou found such worldly sensual Thoughts enter into thy Mind, O my Soul, when thou hast been employed in the great∣est Duties, even at the Holy Sacrament it self! And have not they come in with thy allowance, and approba∣tion, and when they have surpriz'd thee, hast not thou harboured them, made much of them, and been loth to expel them! How reverend should thy Thoughts be upon such occasions! How free from such Extravagan∣cies! How sequestred from a vain World! How should they be taken up with the love of God! How should the Glory of God ingross their strength and power! See by this, which way thy Byass leans! Behold by this, how strongly thy Heart bends to things below! O when will it fix upon the things which are above!