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Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…
Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decays : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decayes : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...
London: printed by J.A. for William Marshall, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE Scripture reproacheth the Vanity and Folly of the Minds of Men, in that they spend their Money for that which is not Bread, and their Labour for that which profiteth not. They engage the Vigour of their Spirits about perishing things, when they have durable Substance and Riches proposed unto them.
THE Scripture reproacheth the Vanity and Folly of the Minds of Men, in that they spend their Money for that which is not Bread, and their Labour for that which profiteth not. They ingage the Vigor of their Spirits about perishing things, when they have durable Substance and Riches proposed unto them.
HOW do Men for the most part exercise their Minds? What are they conversant about in their Thoughts?
SOME by them make provision for the flesh, to fulfil it in the Lusts thereof, as Rom. 13. 14. They search about continually in their Thoughts for Objects suited unto their Lusts and carnal Affections, coining, framing and stamping of them in their Imaginations. They fix their ⟨p. 44⟩Eyes with delight on Toads and Serpents, with all noisome filthy Objects; refusing in the mean time, to behold the Beauty and Glory of the Light of the Sun. So is it with all that spend their Thoughts about the Objects of their sinful Pleasures, refusing to look up after one view of this Glory of Christ.
SOME by them make provision for the flesh, to fulfil it in the Lusts thereof, as Rom. 13. 14. They search about continually in their Thoughts for Objects suited unto their Lusts and carnal Affections, coyning, framing and stamping of them in their Imaginations. They fix their