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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.
To be under an Efficacious Influence from this Design, is the best Preparation for any Duty. So David expresseth his Delight in the Worship of God. How amiable are thy Tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! My Soul longeth; yea, even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord: my Heart and my Flesh crieth out for the Living God, Psal. 84.1, 2. He longed for the Tabernacle, and the Courts of it, but it was the Enjoyment of God himself, the Living God that he desired and sought after. This was that which made him so fervent in his Desires after those Ordinances of God. So he expresseth it, Psal. 63.2. To see thy Power and thy Glory, so as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary. David had had great Communion with, and Delight in God by Faith and Love in the Solemn Duties of his Worship. And this was that which inflamed him with Desires after renewed Opportunities unto the same End.
To be under an Efficacious Influence from this Design, is the best Preparation for any Duty. So David expresseth his Delight in the VVorship of God. How amiable are thy Tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! My Soul longeth; yea, even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord: my Heart and my Flesh cryeth out for the Living God, Psal. 84.1, 2. He longed for the Tabernacle, and the Courts of it, but it was the Enjoyment of God himself, the Living God that he desired and sought after. This was that which made him so servent in his Desires after those Ordinances of God. So he expresseth it, Psal. 63.2. To see thy Power and thy Glory, so as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary. David had had great Communion with, and Delight in God by Faith and Love in the Solemn Duties of his VVorship. And this was that which inflam'd him with Desires after renewed Opportunities unto the same End.
Secondly. This Design is not general, unactive, useless and slothful. But such Persons diligently endeavour in the use of these Ordinances, and attendance unto them, to be found in the Exercise of these Graces. They have not only an Antecedent Design to be so, but a diligent actual Endeavour after it, not suffering their Minds by any thing to be diverted from the pursuit of that Design,