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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.
What is required in, and unto our Affections, that they may be Spiritual. A threefold work on the Affections described.
TO declare the Interest of our Affections in this Frame of being Spiritually-Minded, and what they contribute thereunto, I shall do these three things.
First, Declare what is required hereunto, that our Affections may be Spiritual, wherein lies the Foundation of the whole Duty.
First, Declare what is required hereunto, that our Affections may be Spiritual, wherein lyes the Foundation of the whole Duty.
Secondly, What are their Actings when they are so Spiritual.
Thirdly, What are the means whereby they may be kept and preserved in that Frame, with sundry other things of the like nature How our Affections are concerned in, or do belong unto the Frame of Mind enquired after, hath been before declared. Without Spiritual Affections, we cannot be Spiritually-Minded. And that they may be of this use, three things are required.