Consider what proportion your thoughts of spiritual things bear unto
those about other things. Our principal interest and concern, as we
profess, lies in things spiritual, heavenly, and eternal. Is it not,
then, a foolish thing to suppose that our thoughts about these things
should not hold some proportion with those about other things, nay, that
they should not exceed there? No man is so vain, in earthly things, as
to pretend that his principal concern lieth in that whereof he thinks
very seldom in comparison of other things. It is not so with men in
reference unto their families, their trades, their occasions of life. It
is a truth not only consecrated by the testimony of him who is Truth,
but evident also in the light of reason, that "where our treasure is,
there will our hearts be also;" and the affections of our hearts do act
themselves by the thoughts of our minds, Wherefore, if our principal
treasure be, as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, (and woe
unto us if it be not so!) on them will our affections, and consequently
our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.
- John Owen (The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded, Chapter 4)
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