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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.
CHAP. VIII.
Spiritual Thoughts of God himself. The Opposition unto them and Neglect of them, with their Causes and the way of their Prevalency. Predominant Corruptions expelling due Thoughts of God, how to be discovered, &c. Thoughts of God, of what nature, and what they are to be accompanied withal, &c.
Spiritual Thoughts of God himself. The Opposition unto them and Neglect of them, with their Causes and the way of their Prevalency. Predominant Corruptions expelling due Thoughts of God, how to be discovered, &c. Thoughts of God, of what nature, and what they are to be accompanyed withal, &c.
I Have spoken very briefly unto the first particular Instance of the Heavenly things, that we are to fix our Thoughts upon, namely, the Person of Christ. And I have done it on the Reason before mentioned, namely, that I intend a peculiar Treatise on that subject, or and Enquiry how we may behold the Glory of Christ in this Life, and how we shall do so unto Eternity. That which I have reserved unto the last place as unto the exercise of their Thoughts about, who are Spiritually Minded, is that which is the absolute Foundation and Spring of all spiritual things; namely, God himself. He is the Fountain whence all these things proceed, and the Ocean wherein they issue; He is their Centre and Circumference wherein they all begin, meet and end. So the Apostle issues his profound Discourse of the Counsels of ⟨p. 126⟩