A worldly spirit will ever peep out',

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"He gave Himself for our sins to rescue us
from the present evil age." Galatians 1:4

The first effect of sovereign grace in its divine 
operation upon the heart of a child of God, is to 
separate him from the world by infusing into him 
a new spirit. There is little evidence that grace 
ever touched our hearts if it did not separate us 
from this ungodly world.

Where there is not this divine work upon a sinner's 
conscience—where there is no communication of this 
new heart and this new spirit, no infusion of this holy 
life, no animating, quickening influence of the Spirit 
of God upon the soul—whatever a man's outward 
profession may be, he will ever be of a worldly spirit. 

A set of doctrines, however sound, merely received 
into the natural understanding—cannot divorce a man 
from that innate love of the world which is so deeply 
rooted in his very being. No mighty power has come 
upon his soul to revolutionize his every thought, cast 
his soul as if into a new mold—and by stamping upon 
it the mind and likeness of Christ to change him 
altogether. This worldly spirit may be . . .
checked by circumstances,
controlled by natural conscience, or
influenced by the example of others; 
but a worldly spirit will ever peep out from the 
thickest disguise, and manifest itself, as occasion 
draws it forth, in every unregenerate man.

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