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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.
3. Where Men are resolved not to see, the greater the Light is that shines about them, the faster they must close they Eyes. All Atheism springs from a Resolution not to see things invisible and Eternal. Love of sin, a resolved continuance in the practice of it, the effectual Power of vicious Inclinations, in opposition unto all that is Good, make it the Interest of such men that there should be no God to call them to an account. For a Supreme unavoidable Judge, an Eternal Rewarder of Good and Evil, is inseparable from the first notion of a Divine Being. Whereas therefore the most glorious Light and uncontrollable Evidence of these things shines forth in the Scripture, men that will abide by their interest to love and live in sin, must close their Eyes with all the Arts and Powers that they have, or else they will pierce into their Minds unto their Torment. This they do by down-right Atheism, which alone pretends to give them security against the Light of Divine Revelation. Against all other convictions, they might take shelter from their, fears, under less degrees of it.
3. Where Men are resolved not to see, the greater the Light is that shines about them, the faster they must close they Eyes. All Atheism springs from a Resolution not to see things invisible and Eternal. Love of sin, a resolved continuance in the practice of it, the effectual Power of vitious Inclinations, in opposition unto all that is Good, make it the Interest of such men that there should be no God to call them to an account. For a Supream unavoidable Judge, an Eternal Rewarder of Good and Evil, is inseparable from the first notion of a Divine Being. Whereas therefore the most glorious Light and uncontroulable Evidence of these things shines forth in the Scripture, men that will abide by their interest to love and live in sin, must close their Eyes with all the Arts and Powers that they have, or else they will pierce into their Minds unto their Torment. This they do by down-right Atheism, which alone pretends to give them security against the Light of Divine Revelation. Against all other convictions, they might take shelter from their, fears, under less degrees of it.
It is not therefore unto the Disparagement but honour of the Gospel, that so many avow themselves to be