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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.
Wherefore two things are required that we may thus think of Christ and Meditate on him according to the mind and will of God. (1.) That the means of bringing him to Mind, be what God hath promised and appointed. (2.) That the continued Proposal of him as the Object of our Thoughts and Meditations be of the same kind. For both these ends, the superstitious minds of men invented the ways of Images and Crucifixes, with their Appurtenances before mentioned. And this rendered all their Devotion an Abomination. That which tends unto these ends among Believers, is the Promise of the Spirit; and the Institutions of the Word. Would you then think of Christ as you ought; take these two directions. (1.) Pray that the Holy Spirit may abide with you continually to mind you of him, which he will do in all in whom he doth abide; For it belongs unto his Office. (2.) For more fixed Thoughts and Meditations; take some express place of Scripture, wherein he is set forth and proposed either in his Person, Office, or Grace unto you, Gal. 3.1.
Wherefore two things are required that we may thus think of Christ and Meditate on him according to the mind and will of God. (1.) That the means of bringing him to Mind, be what God hath promised and appointed. (2.) That the continued Proposal of him as the Object of our Thoughts and Meditations be of the same kind. For both these ends, the superstitious minds of men invented the wayes of Images and Crucifixes, with their Appurtenances before mentioned. And this rendred all their Devotion an Abomination. That which tends unto these ends among Believers, is the Promise of the Spirit; and the Institutions of the Word. Would you then think of Christ as you ought; take these two directions. (1.) Pray that the Holy Spirit may abide with you continually to mind you of him, which he will do in all in whom he doth abide; For it belongs unto his Office. (2.) For more fixed Thoughts and Meditations; take some express place of Scripture, wherein he is set forth and proposed either in his Person, Office, or Grace unto you, Gal. 3.1.