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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. They are so also, in that they are manifest, that we do discern and judge that our Eternal Blessedness doth consist in the full Manifestation, and our Enjoyment of God in what he is, and of all his Divine Excellencies. This Men for the most part take for granted, but how it should be so, they know not. They understand it in some measure whose hearts are here deeply affected with Delight in them; they are able to believe that the manifestation and Enjoyment of the Divine Excellencies will give Eternal Rest, satisfaction and complacency unto their Souls. No wicked man can look upon it otherwise than a Torment, to abide for ever with Eternal Holiness, Isa. 33.14. And we our selves can have no present prospect into the fullness of future Glory, when God shall be all in all, but through the Delight and satisfaction which we have here in the contemplation of what God is in himself, as the Centre of all divine Perfections.
3. They are so also, in that they are manifest, that we do discern and judge that our Eternal Blessedness doth consist in the full Manifestation, and our Enjoyment of God in what he is, and of all his Divine Excellencies. This Men for the most part take for granted, but how it should be so, they know not. They understand it in some measure whose hearts are here deeply affected with Delight in them; they are able to believe that the manifestation and Enjoyment of the Divine Excellencies will give Eternal Rest, satisfaction and complacency unto their Souls. No wicked man can look upon it otherwise than a Torment, to abide for ever with Eternal Holiness, Isa. 33.14. And we our selves can have no present prospect into the fulness of future Glory, when God shall be all in all, but through the Delight and satisfaction which we have here in the contemplation of what God is in himself, as the Center of all divine Perfections.
I would therefore press this unknown, this neglected Duty on the minds of those of us in an especial manner, who are visibly drawing nigh unto Eternity. The Days are coming, wherein what God is in himself, that is as manifest and exerted in Christ, shall alone be (as we hope) the Eternal Blessedness and Reward of our Souls. Is it possible that any thing should be more necessary