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The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded
Phronemma tou pneumatou, or, The grace and duty of being spiritually-minded declared and practically improved / by John Owen ...Phronēma tou pneumatou, or, The grace and duty of being spiritually-minded declared and practically improved / by John Owen ...
London: printed by J.G. for Nathaniel Ponder, 1681
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.
Thoughts about these things are both allowable and unavoidable, if they take not the Mind out of its own Power, by their multiplicity, vehemency, and urgency, until it be unframed as unto Spiritual things, retaining neither room nor time for their entertainment.
Thoughts about these things are both allowable and unavoydable, if they take not the Mind out of its own Power, by their multiplicity, vehemency, and urgency, untill it be unframed as unto Spiritual things, retaining neither room nor time for their entertainment.
Hence Men walk and talk, as if the World were all, when Comparatively it is nothing.
Hence Men walk and talke, as if the World were all, when Comparatively it is nothing.
And when men come with their warmed Affections reeking with thoughts of these things unto the performance of, or attendance unto any Spiritual Duty, it is very Difficult for them, if not impossible to stir up any Grace unto a Due and vigorous exercise. Unless this plausible Advantage which the World hath obtained of insinuating it self and its Occasions into the Minds of Men, so as to fill them and Possess them, be watched against, and obviated, so far, at least, as that it may not transform the Mind into its own Image and likeness this Grace of being Spiritually-Minded which is Life and Peace cannot be attained nor kept unto it's due Exercise.
And when men come with their warmed Affections reeking with thoughts of these things unto the performance of, or attendance unto any Spiritual Duty, it is very Difficult for them, if not impossible to stir up any Grace unto a Due and vigourous exercise. Unless this plausible Advantage which the World hath obtained of insinuating it self and its Occasions into the Mindes of Men, so as to fill them and Possesse them, be watched against, and obviated, so far, at least, as that it may not transform the Mind into its own Image and likeness this Grace of being Spiritually-Minded which is Life and Peace cannot be attained nor kept unto it's due Exercise.