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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 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.
The Mind hereby becomes the Temple of God wherein he dwells by the Spirit; Christ also dwelleth in Believers, and they in him. God is Love, and he that dwelleth in Love, dwelleth in God, and God in him, 1 John 4.16.
Love in its proper Exercise, gives a mutual Inhabitation unto God and Believers. In brief, he whose Affections are set upon Heavenly things in a due manner, will be Heavenly-Minded. And in the due Exercise of them, will that Heavenly Mindedness be increased. The Transformation and Assimilation that is wrought, is not in the Object or Spiritual things themselves, they are not changed neither in themselves, nor in the Representation made of them unto our Minds; But the Change is in our Affections which are made like unto them.
Love in its proper Exercise, gives a mutual Inhabitation unto God and Believers. In brief, he whose Affections are set upon Heavenly things in a due manner, will be Heavenly-Minded. And in the due Exercise of them, will that Heavenly Mindedness be encreased. The Transformation and Assimulation that is wrought, is not in the Object or Spiritual things themselves, they are not changed neither in themselves, nor in the Representation made of them unto our Minds; But the Change is in our Affections which are made like unto them.