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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.
The second Difference between Affections Spiritually renewed and those who have been only Changed by Light and Conviction. Grounds and Reasons of Mens Delight in Duties of Divine Worship, and of their Diligence in their Performance whose Minds are not Spiritually Minded.
The second Difference lieth herein, That there may be a Change in the Affections, wherein Men may have Delight in the Duties of Religious Worship, and Diligence in their Observance; but it is the Spiritual Renovation of the Affections that gives Delight in God through Christ, in any Duty of Religious Worship whatever.
THe second Difference lyeth herein, That there may be a Change in the Affections, wherein Men may have Delight in the Duties of Religious Worship, and Diligence in their Observance; but it is the Spiritual Revovation of the Affections that gives Delight in God through Christ, in any Duty of Religious Worship whatever.
Where the truth of the Gospel is known and publicly Professed; there is great variety in the Minds, Ways, and Practices of Men about the Duties of Religious Worship. Many are profane in their Minds and Lives, who, practically at least, despise, or wholly neglect the Observance of them. These are stout hearted, and far from Righteousness, Tit. 1.16. Some attend unto them formally and Cursorily, from the Principles of their Education, and it may be out of some Convictions they have of their necessity. But many there are who in the Way they choose and are pleased withal, are diligent in their Observance, and that with great Delight, who yet give no Evidence of the Spiritual Renovation of ⟨p. 221⟩their Minds. Yea, the way whereby some express their Devotion in them, being Superstitious and Idolatrous, is inconsistent with that or any other Saving Grace. This therefore we must diligently enquire into, or search into the grounds and reasons of Mens delight in Divine Worship, according unto their Convictions of the way of it, and yet continue in their Minds altogether unrenewed. And