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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.
2. There are those of whom also it may be said, that God is not in all their Thoughts, though they acknowledge his Essence and Being. For they are not practically influenced in any thing by the Notions they have of him. Such is the Person of whom this is affirmed; Psal. 10.4. He is one who through Pride and Profligacy with hardness in sin, regards not God in the Rule of the World, ver. 4, 5, 11, 13. Such is the world filled ⟨p. 132⟩withal at this day, as they are described, Tit. 1.16. They profess that they know God, but in their Works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work Reprobate. They think, they live, they act in all things as if there were no God, at least as if they never thought of him with fear and Reverence. And for the most part we need not seek far for Evidences of their disregard of God; the Pride of their countenances testify against them, Psal. 10.4. And if they are followed further, cursed Oaths, Licentiousness of Life, and hatred of all that is Good, will confirm and Evidence the same. Such as these may own God in words, may be afraid of him in dangers, may attend outwardly on his Worship; but they think not of God at all in a due manner; he is not in all their Thoughts.
2. There are those of whom also it may be said, that God is not in all their Thaughts, though they acknowledge his Essence and Being. For they are not practically influenced in any thing by the Notions they have of him. Such is the Person of whom this is affirmed; Psal. 10.4. He is one who through Pride and Profligacy with hardness in sin, regards not God in the Rule of the World, ver. 4, 5, 11, 13. Such is the world filled ⟨p. 132⟩withal at this day, as they are described, Tit. 1.16. They profess that they know God, but in their Works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work Reprobate. They think, they live, they act in all things as if there were no God, at least as if they never thought of him with fear and Reverence. And for the most part we need not seek far for Evidences of their disregard of God; the Pride of their countenances testify against them,