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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.
The Heart will have something whereon in a way of Preeminence, it will fix it self and its Affections. This in all its perpetual motions it seeks for rest and satisfaction in; And every man hath an Edge, the Edge of his Affections is set one way or other, though it be more keen in some than others. And whereas all sorts of things, that the Heart can fix upon or turn the Edge of its Affections unto, are distributed by the Apostle into things above and things beneath, things Heavenly and things Earthly, if we have not such a view and prospect of Heavenly things as to cause our Hearts to cleave unto them and delight in them, let us pretend what we will, it is impossible but that we shall be under the power of a predominant Affection unto the things of this World.
The Heart will have something whereon in a way of Preheminence, it will fix it self and its Affections. This in all its perpetual motions it seeks for rest and satisfaction in; And every man hath an Edge, the Edge of his Affections is set one way or other, though it be more keen in some than others. And whereas all sorts of things, that the Heart can fix upon or turn the Edge of its Affections unto, are distributed by the Apostle into things above and things beneath, things Heavenly and things Earthly, if we have not such a view and prospect of Heavenly things as to cause our Hearts to cleave unto them and delight in them, let us pretend what we will, it is impossible but that we shall be under the power of a predominant Affection unto the things of this World.
Herein lies the great Danger of Multitudes at this ⟨p. 90⟩present season. For let men profess what they will under the power of this frame, their Eternal state is in hazard every moment. And Persons are engaged in it in great variety of Degrees. And we may cast them under two Heads.
Herein lyes the great Danger of Multitudes at this ⟨p. 90⟩present season. For let men profess what they will under the power of this frame, their Eternal state is in hazard every moment. And Persons are ingaged in it in great variety of Degrees. And we may cast them under two Heads.