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.