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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.
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.
Two Cases deriving from this Principle and Consideration, may be here spoken unto, and shall be so; the first in this, and the other in the following Chapter. The one is concerning the Slowness and Imperceptibility of the Growth of our Affections in their Assimilation unto Heavenly things, with the Causes and Reasons of it. The other is, the Decays that frequently befall Men in their Affections unto Spiritual things instead of growing and thriving in them, with the Reasons and Causes thereof.
Two Cases deriving from this Principle and Consideration, may be here spoken unto, and shall be so; the first in this, and the other in the following Chapter. The one is concerning the Slowness and Imperceptibility of the Growth of our Affections in their Assimulation unto Heavenly things, with the Causes and Reasons of it. The other is, the Decays that frequently befall Men in their Affections unto Spiritual things instead of growing and thriving in them, with the Reasons and Causes thereof.