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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.
(1.) By a speedy rejection of such Diabolical Suggestions with detestation. So did our Saviour in a case not unlike it; Get thee behind me Satan. Wherefore, if any such Thoughts are suggested, or seem to arise in your minds, know assuredly that they are no less immediately from the Devil, than if he personally stood before you, and visibly appeared unto you; if he did so, there is none of you but would arm your selves with an utter defiance of what he should offer unto you. It is no less necessary on this occasion, when you may feel him, though you see him not. Suffer not his fiery darts to abide one moment with you, entertain no parley or dispute about them, reject them with indignation, and strengthen your rejection of them with some pertinent testimony of Scripture, as our Saviour did. If a man have a Grenade or Fire-ball cast into his Clothes by his Enemy, he ⟨p. 154⟩doth not consider whether it will burn or no, but Immediately shakes it off from him. Deal no otherwise with these fiery darts, lest by their abode with you they inflame your Imagination unto greater disturbance.
(1.) By a speedy rejection of such Diabolical Suggestions with detestation. So did our Saviour in a case not unlike it; Get thee behind me Sathan. Wherefore, if any such Thoughts are suggested, or seem to arise in your minds, know assuredly that they are no less immediately from the Devil, than if he personally stood before you, and visibly appear'd unto you; if he did so, there is none of you but would arm your selves with an utter defiance of what he should offer unto you. It is no less necessary on this occasion, when you may feel him, though you see him not. Suffer not his fiery darts to abide one moment with you, entertain no parly or dispute about them, reject them with indignation, and strengthen your rejection of them with some pertinent testimony of Scripture, as our Saviour did. If a man have a Granado or Fire-ball cast into his Cloaths by his Enemy, he ⟨p. 154⟩doth not consider whether it will burn or no, but Immediately shakes it off from him. Deal no otherwise with these fiery darts, lest by their abode with you they inflame your Imagination unto greater disturbance.