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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.
This is the first object of our Affections.
Secondly. In other Spiritual things, renewed Affections do cleave unto them according as God is in them. God alone is loved for himself, all other things for him, in the measure and Degree of his presence in them. This alone gives them preeminence in renewed Affections; for Instance, God is in Christ, in the humane nature of the man Christ Jesus, in a way and manner, singular, in concern a like, incomprehensible, so as he is in the same kind in nothing else. Therefore is the Lord Christ even as unto his humane Nature, the Object of our Love and Affections in such a way and Degree, as no other thing, Spiritual or Eternal but God himself is or ought to be; all other Spiritual things become so from ⟨p. 217⟩the Presence of God in them, and from the Degree of that Presence have they their Nature and Use. Accordingly are they, or ought to be the Object of our Affections, as unto the degree of their Exercise. Evidence of the Presence of God in things and Persons, are the only attractives of renewed Affections.
Secondly. In other Spiritual things, renewed Affections do cleave unto them according as God is in them. God alone is loved for himself, all other things for him, in the measure and Degree of his presence in them. This alone gives them preheminence in renewed Affections; for Instance, God is in Christ, in the humane nature of the man Christ Jesus, in a way and manner, singular, in concern a like, incomprehensible, so as he is in the same kind in nothing else. Therefore is the Lord Christ even as unto his humane Nature, the Object of our Love and Affections in such a way and Degree, as no other thing, Spiritual or Eternal but God himself is or ought to be; all other Spiritual things become so from ⟨p. 217⟩the Presence of God in them, and from the Degree of that Presence have they their Nature and Use. Accordingly are they, or ought to be the Object of our Affections, as unto the degree of their Exercise. Evidence of the Presence of God in things and Persons, are the only attractives of renewed Affections.