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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.
All these things do concur in the minding of the Spirit, or to constitute any Person spiritually minded. And although the Foundation of the whole Duty included in it, lies in the Affections, and their immediate Adherence unto spiritual things, whence the Thoughts and Meditations of the mind about them do proceed, yet I shall treat of the distinct Parts of this Duty in the Order laid down, beginning with the Exercise of our Thoughts and Meditations about them. For they being the first genuine Actings of the Mind, according unto the Prevalency of Affections in it, they will make the best and most evident discovery of what nature the Spring is from whence they do arise. And I shall not need to speak distinctly unto what is mentioned in the ⟨p. 7⟩third place, concerning the Complacency of the Mind in what its Affections are fixed on, for it will fall in with sundry other things that are to be spoken unto.
All these things do concurr in the minding of the Spirit, or to constitute any Person spiritually minded. And although the Foundation of the whole Duty included in it, lyes in the Affections, and their immediate Adherence unto spiritual things, whence the Thoughts and Meditations of the mind about them do proceed, yet I shall treat of the distinct Parts of this Duty in the Order layd down, beginning with the Exercise of our Thoughts and Meditations about them. For they being the first genuine Actings of the Mind, according unto the Prevalency of Affections in it, they will make the best and most evident discovery of what nature the Spring is from whence they do arise. And I shall not need to speak distinctly unto what is mentioned in the ⟨p. 7⟩third place, concerning the Complacency of the Mind in what its Affections are fixed on, for it will fall in with sundry other things that are to be spoken unto.
But before we do proceed, it is not amiss, as I suppose, to put a remark upon those important Truths, which are directly contained in the Words, proposed as the Foundation of the present Discourse. As,