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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.
Secondly, Gradual as unto its Increase; and therein Faith works in and by the Affections.
Whenever the Affections do cleave intensely unto any Object, they receive an Impression from it, as the Wax doth from the Seal when applied unto it, which changeth them into its own likeness. So the Apostle affirms of sensual unclean Persons; they have Eyes full of Adultery, 2 Pet. 2.14. Their Affections are so wholly possessed and filled with their lustful Objects, as that they have brought forth their own likeness upon their Imaginations. That blots out all others, and leaves them no Inclinations but what they stir up in them. When men are filled with the Love of this World, which carries along with it all their other Affections, their Hopes, Fears, and Desires, unto a constant Exercise about the same Object, they become Earthly-Minded. Their Minds are so changed into the Image of the things themselves, by the effectual working of the corrupt Principles of Sin, Self-Love and Lust, as if they were made up of the Earth, and therefore have no Savour of any thing else.
Whenever the Affections do cleave intensely unto any Object, they receive an Impression from it, as the Wax doth from the Seal when applyed unto it, which changeth them into its own likeness. So the Apostle affirms of sensual unclean Persons; they have Eyes full of Adultery, 2 Pet. 2.14. Their Affections are so wholly possessed and filled with their lustful Objects, as that they have brought forth their own likeness upon their Imaginations. That blots out all others, and leaves them no Inclinations but what they stir up in them. When men are filled with the Love of this World, which carries along with it all their other Affections, their Hopes, Fears, and Desires, unto a constant Exercise about the same Object, they become Earthly-Minded. Their Minds are so changed into the Image of the things themselves, by the effectual working of the corrupt Principles of Sin, Self-Love and Lust, as if they were made up of the Earth, and therefore have no Savour of any thing else.