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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.
This attracts them if they are Spiritually renewed and causeth them to cleave with Delight unto what is so proposed unto them. He that believes in Christ in a due manner, who thereon discovers the Excellency of his Person, and the Glory of his Mediation, will both love him, and on his Believing rejoice with Joy unspeakable, and full of Glory. So is, it in all other Instances; the more steady is our view by Faith of Spiritual things the more firm and constant will our Affections be in cleaving unto them. And wherever the Mind is darkened about them, by Temptation or Seduction from the Truth, there the Affections will be quickly weakened and impaired. Wherefore,
This attracts them if they are Spiritually renewed and causeth them to cleave with Delight unto what is so proposed unto them. He that believes in Christ in a due manner, who thereon discovers the Excellency of his Person, and the Glory of his Mediation, will both love him, and on his Believing rejoyce with Joy unspeakable, and full of Glory. So is, it in all other Instances; the more steady is our view by Faith of Spiritual things the more firm and constant will our Affections be in cleaving unto them. And wherever the Mind is darkned about them, by Temptation or Seduction from the Truth, there the Affections will be quickly weakned and impaired. Wherefore,
Thirdly, Affections thus lead unto, and fixed on Spiritual and Heavenly things under the Light and Conduct of Faith, are more and more renewed, or made in themselves more Spiritual and Heavenly. They are in their cleaving unto them, and delight in them, continually changed and Assimilated unto the things themselves: becoming more and more to be what they are namely, Spiritual and Heavenly.
Thirdly, Affections thus lead unto, and fixed on Spiritual and Heavenly things under the Light and Conduct of Faith, are more and more renewed, or made in themselves more Spiritual and Heavenly. They are in their cleaving unto them, and delight in them, continually changed and Assimulated unto the things themselves: becomming more and more to be what they are namely, Spiritual and Heavenly.