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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.
It is the Character of all men in the state of depraved Nature and Apostasy from God, that every Imagination of the Thoughts of their Hearts, is only evil continually, Gen. 6.5. All Persons in that condition are not Swearers, Blasphemers, Drunkards, Adulterers, Idolaters, or the like. These are the vices of particular Persons, the effects of particular Constitutions and Temptations. But thus it is with them, all and every one of them, all the Imaginations of the Thoughts of their Hearts are evil, and that continually. Some as unto the Matter of them, some as unto their End, all as unto their Principle; for out of the evil Treasure of the Heart can proceed nothing but what is evil. That infinite multitude of open sins which is in the World, doth give a clear Prospect or Representation of the Nature and Effects of our Apostasy from God. But he that can consider the numberless number of Thoughts which pass through the minds of every individual Person every day, all evil, and that continually, he will have a farther Comprehension of it.
It is the Character of all men in the state of depraved Nature and Apostasie from God, that every Imagination of the Thoughts of their Hearts, is only evil continually, Gen. 6.5. All Persons in that condition are not Swearers, Blasphemers, Drunkards, Adulterers, Idolaters, or the like. These are the vices of particular Persons, the effects of particular Constitutions and Temptations. But thus it is with them, all and every one of them, all the Imaginations of the Thoughts of their Hearts are evil, and that continually. Some as unto the Matter of them, some as unto their End, all as unto their Principle; for out of the evil Treasure of the Heart can proceed nothing but what is evil. That infinite multitude of open sins which is in the World, doth give a clear Prospect or Representation of the Nature and Effects of our Apostasie from God. But he that can consider the numberless number of Thoughts which pass through the minds of every individual Person every day, all evil, and that continually, he will have a farther Comprehension of it.