2. With regard to the former, all our thoughts are naturally of this kind. For they are continually wandering from God: we think nothing about him. God is not in all our thoughts: we are, one and all, as the apostle observes, _without God in the world_. We think of what we love: but we do not love God: therefore we think not of him. Or if we are now and then constrained to think of him for a time, yet as we have no pleasure therein, nay rather, as these thoughts are not only insipid, but distasteful and irksome to us, we drive them out as soon as we can, and return to what we love to think of. So that the world and the things of the world, what we shall eat, what we shall drink, what we shall put on: what we shall see, what we shall hear, what we shall gain: how we shall please our senses or our imagination, takes up all our time, and engrosses all our thought. So long therefore as we love the world, that is, so long as we are in our natural state, all our thoughts, from morning to evening, and from evening to morning, are no other than wandering thoughts. 3. But many times we are not only _without God in the world_, but also fighting _against him_: as there is in every man by nature a _carnal mind which is enmity against God_: no wonder therefore that men abound with _unbelieving_ thoughts: either saying in their hearts there is no God, or questioning, if not denying his power or wisdom, his mercy, or justice, or holiness. No wonder, that they so often doubt of his providence, at least, of its extending to all events: or that even tho’ they allow it, they still entertain _murmuring or repining_ thoughts. Nearly related to these and frequently connected with them, are _proud_ and _vain_ imaginations. Again: sometimes they are taken up with _angry_, _malicious_ or _revengeful_ thoughts: at other times, with airy scenes of pleasure, whether of sense or imagination: whereby the earthy sensual mind, becomes more _earthy_ and _sensual_ still. Now by all these, they make flat war with God; these are _wandering thoughts_ of the highest kind. 4. Widely different from these are the other sort of _wandering thoughts_: in which the heart does not wander from God, but the understanding wanders from the particular point it had then in view. For instance: I sit down to consider those words in the verse preceeding the text, _The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty thro’_ God. I think, “This ought to be the case with all that are called Christians. But how far is it otherwise? Look round into almost every part of what is termed the Christian world! What manner of weapons are these using? In what kind of warfare are they engaged, “While men, like fiends, each other tear In all the hellish rage of war?