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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.
It is the Holy Spirit who is the immediate efficient Cause of all these things in us. He sheds abroad the Love of God in our Hearts, Rom. 5.5. He witnesseth our Adoption unto us, Chap. 8.15, 16. And thereby an Interest in the Love of the Father, in God as he is Love. But the Outward Way and means whereby he communicates these things unto us, and effects them in us, is by the Dispensation of the Gospel, or the Preaching of it ordinarily. He doth the same work also in Prayer, oft-times in other Holy Administrations. For this end, for a Participation of this Grace, of these Mercies, do Believers come unto God by them. They use them as means to draw Water from the Wells of Salvation, and to receive in that Spiritual Sense of Divine Love, which God by them will communicate.
It is the Holy Spirit who is the immediate efficient Cause of all these things in us. He sheds abroad the Love of God in our Hearts, Rom. 5.5. He witnesseth our Adoption unto us, Chap. 8.15, 16. And thereby an Intrest in the Love of the Father, in God as he is Love. But the Outward Way and means whereby he communicates these things unto us, and effects them in us, is by the Dispensation of the Gospel, or the Preaching of it ordinarily. He doth the same work also in Prayer, oft-times in other Holy Administrations. For this end, for a Participation of this Grace, of these Mercies, do Believers come unto God by them. They use them as meanes to draw Water from the Wells of Salvation, and to receive in that Spiritual Sense of Divine Love, which God by them will communicate.
So Christ, by his Word, knocks at the Door of the Heart, if it be opened by Faith, he cometh in and Suppeth with men, giving them a gracious Refreshment, by the Testimony of his own Love, and the Love of the Father, Rev. 3.20. Joh. 14.23. This Believers look for in, and this they do in various measures receive by the Ordinances of Divine Worship. And although some through their Fears and Temptations, are not sensible hereof, yet do they secretly receive these blessed gracious Supplies whereby their Souls are held in Life, without which they would pine away and perish. So he dealeth with them,