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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.
In like manner when by Faith men come to embrace Heavenly things, through the effectual Working of a Principle of Spiritual Life and Grace in them, they are every day more and more made Heavenly. The Inward Man is renewed day by Day. Love is more sincere and ardent, Delight is more ravishing and sensible, Desires are more enlarged and intense, and by all a Taste and Relish of ⟨p. 260⟩Heavenly things is heightened into refreshing Experience see Rom. 5.2, 3, 4, 5.
In like manner when by Faith men come to embrace Heavenly things, through the effectual Working of a Principle of Spiritual Life and Grace in them, they are every day more and more made Heavenly. The Inward Man is renewed day by Day. Love is more sincere and ardent, Delight is more ravishing and sensible, Desires are more inlarged and intense, and by all a Tast and Relish of ⟨p. 260⟩Heavenly things is heightned into refreshing Experience see Rom. 5.2, 3, 4, 5.
This is the way whereby one Grace is added unto another, 2 Pet. 1.5, 6. in Degrees. Great is the Assimilation between renewed Affections and their Spiritual Objects, that by this means may be attained.
This is the way whereby one Grace is added unto another, 2 Pet. 1.5, 6. in Degrees. Great is the Assimulation between renewed Affections and their Spiritual Objects, that by this means may be attained.