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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.
CHAP. XIII.
The Work of the Renovation of our Affections. How differenced from any other Impression on, or Change wrought in them, and how it is Evidenced so to be. The first Instance in the Universality accompanying of Affections Spiritually renewed. The Order of the Exercise of our Affections with Respect unto their Objects.
That which is our Concernment herein, is to enquire of what Nature that Work is which hath been on our own Affections, or in them, and how it differs from those, which whatever they do or effect, yet will not render us nor themselves Spiritual.
THat which is our Concernment herein, is to enquire of what Nature that Work is which hath been on our own Affections, or in them, and how it differs from those, which whatever they do or effect, yet will not render us nor themselves Spiritual.
And we ought to use the best of our Diligence herein; because the great means whereby Multitudes delude and deceive their own Souls, persuading themselves that there has been an effectual Work of the Grace of the Gospel in them, is the Change that they find in their Affections which may be on many Occasions, without any Spiritual Renovation.