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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 Transformation is wrought by Faith, and is one of the most excellent Faculties and Operations, see 2 Cor. 3.18. And the means whereby it works herein, are our Affections. In them as we are Carnal, we are conformed unto this World; and by them as Sanctified, are we transformed in the renewing of our Minds, Rom. 12.2. And this Transformation is the Introduction of a new Form or Nature into our Souls, diverse from that wherewith we were ⟨p. 259⟩before endued. So is it described, Isaiah 11.6, 7, 8, 9. A Spiritual Nature they were changed into. And it is twofold.
This Transformation is wrought by Faith, and is one of the most excellent Faculties and Operations, see 2 Cor. 3.18. And the meanes whereby it works herein, are our Affections. In them as we are Carnal, we are conformed unto this World; and by them as Sanctifyed, are we transformed in the renewing of our Minds, Rom. 12.2. And this Transformation is the Introduction of a new Form or Nature into our Souls, diverse from that wherewith we were ⟨p. 259⟩before endued. So is it described, Isaiah 11.6, 7, 8, 9. A Spiritual Nature they were changed into. And it is twofold.
First, Original and Radical as to the Substance or Essence of it, which is the Effect of the first Act of Divine Grace upon our Souls, when we are made new Creatures. Herein our Affections are passive, they do not transform us, but are transformed.