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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 great Character and description of the frame of mens minds in an unregenerate Condition, or before ⟨p. 15⟩the Renovation of their Natures, That every Imagination of the Thoughts of their Hearts are only evil continually, Gen. 6.5. They are continually coining Figments and Imaginations in their Hearts, stamping them into Thoughts that are vain, foolish and wicked. All other Thoughts in them are occasional; these are the natural, genuine product of their Hearts. Hence the clearest and sometimes first discovery of the bottomless evil Treasure of filth, folly and wickedness that is in the Heart of man by nature, is from the innumerable multitude of evil Imaginations, which are there coined and thrust forth every day. So the wicked are said to be like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt; Isa. 57.20. There is a fullness of evil in their Hearts, like that of water in the Sea. This fullness is troubled or put into continual Motion by their Lusts and impetuous desires. Hence the mire and dirt of evil Thoughts are continually cast up in them.
It is the great Character and description of the frame of mens minds in an unregenerate Condition, or before ⟨p. 15⟩the Renovation of their Natures, That every Imagination of the Thoughts of their Hearts are only evil continually, Gen. 6.5. They are continually coyning Figments and Imaginations in their Hearts, stamping them into Thoughts that are vain, foolish and wicked. All other Thoughts in them are occasional; these are the natural, genuine product of their Hearts. Hence the clearest and sometimes first discovery of the bottomless evil Treasure of filth, folly and wickedness that is in the Heart of man by nature, is from the innumerable multitude of evil Imaginations, which are there coyned and thrust forth every day. So the wicked are said to be like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt; Isa. 57.20. There is a fulness of evil in their Hearts, like that of water in the Sea. This fulness is troubled or put into continual Motion by their Lusts and impetuous desires. Hence the mire and dirt of evil Thoughts are continually cast up in them.