Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded - Preface

The present importunity of the world to impose itself on the minds of men, and the various ways of insinuation whereby it possesses and fills them. If it attain this, — if it can fill the minds, the thoughts, and affections of men, with itself, — it will in some fortify the soul against faith and obedience, and in others weaken all grace, and endanger eternal ruin. For "if we love the world, the love of the Father is not in us;" and when the world fills our thoughts, it will entangle our affections.