Love of the world . We would have happiness here. It is excluded. Spiritual sloth, and carelessness of spirit . This impediment is when men do not trouble themselves about religion, nor any thing that is serious.
Love is a busy passion, a busy grace.
Love among the passions is like fire among the elements. Love among the graces is like the heart among the members. Now that which is most contrary to the nature of love must needs most obstruct the highest actings of it. Spiritual sloth doeth Christians more mischief than scandalous relapses. But yet, as to themselves , a slothful temper is far more prejudicial.