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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.
And those who have no Experience hereof in their attendance unto them, do as hath been said, fall into pernicious Extremes. Some continue their Observance with little regard unto God, in Cursed Formality. So they make them a means of their ruin by Countenancing of them in their Security.
And those who have no Experience hereof in their attendance unto them, do as hath been said, fall into pernitious Extreams. Some continue their Observance with little regard unto God, in Cursed Formality. So they make them a means of their ruine by Countenancing of them in their Security.
Others utterly reject them, at least the most Solemn of ⟨p. 236⟩them, and therein both the Wisdom, and Grace and Authority of God by whom they are appointed. Because through the Power of their own Unbelief they find nothing in them.
This being the immediate end of all Divine Institutions, this being the only way whereby we may give Glory unto God in their Observance, which is their ultimate End in this World; & this being the Design in general of Believers in that Obedience they yield unto the Lord Christ in their diligent Observation of them; We may consider how, in what way, and by what means those whose Affections are Spiritually renewed, do and ought to apply their Minds and Souls unto their Observance. And we may consider herein: first, What they do design; and then what they endeavour to be found in the Exercise and Practice of, in their use and Enjoyment.
This being the immediate end of all Divine Institutions, this being the only way whereby we may give Glory unto God in their Observance, which is their ultimate End in this World; & this being the Design in general of Believers in that Obedience they yield unto the Lord Christ in their diligent Observation of them; We may consider how, in what way, and by what meanes those whose Affections are Spiritually renewed, do and ought to apply their Minds and Souls unto their Observance. And we may consider herein: first, What they do design; and then what they endeavour to be found in the Exercise and Practice of, in their use and Enjoyment.