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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.
Would you now know what you should fix and exercise ⟨p. 64⟩your Thoughts upon, so as that they may be Evidences of your being Spiritually minded? I say, be frequently conversant in them about these things. They lye before you, they call upon you, and will find you a just employment. Count them part of your business, allow them some part of your time, cease not until you have the Testimony of your Consciences, that you have in sincerity stated both these Duties in your minds, which will never be done without many Thoughts about them. Unless it be so with you, God will be greatly displeased at the neglect of his coming and call, now it is so plain and articulate. Fear the woeful Dooms recorded, Prov. 1.24, 25, 26, 27, 28. Isa. 56.12 Chap. 66.4. to this purpose. And if any calamity, public or private, do overtake you under a neglect of these Duties, you will be woefully surprised, and not know which way to turn for Relief. This therefore is the time and season wherein you may have an especial trial and experiment whether you be Spiritually minded or no. It is the wisdom of Faith to excite and draw forth Grace into Exercise according unto present Occasions. If this Grace be habitually resident in you, it will put it self forth in many Thoughts about these present Duties.
Would you now know what you should fix and exercise ⟨p. 64⟩your Thoughts upon, so as that they may be Evidences of your being Spiritually minded? I say, be frequently conversant in them about these things. They lye before you, they call upon you, and will find you a just employment. Count them part of your business, allow them some part of your time, cease not untill you have the Testimony of your Consciences, that you have in sincerity stated both these Duties in your minds, which will never be done without many Thoughts about them. Unless it be so with you, God will be greatly displeased at the neglect of his coming and call, now it is so plain and articulate. Fear the woful Dooms recorded, Prov. 1.24, 25, 26, 27, 28.