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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.
Thirdly, They judge it no hard matter to retrieve themselves out of this State, but that which they can easily do, when there is an absolute Necessity of it. But this is a false Notion also. Recovery from backsliding is the hardest ⟨p. 283⟩task in Christian Religion, and which few make either comfortable, or honourable work of.
Thirdly, They judge it no hard matter to retrive themselves out of this State, but that which they can easily do, when there is an absolute Necessity of it. But this is a false Notion also. Recovery from backsliding is the hardest ⟨p. 283⟩task in Christian Religion, and which few make either comfortable, or honourable work of.
In this State, I say, men are apt by such false reasonings to deceive themselves unto their eternal Ruin; which makes the consideration of it the more necessary.
In this State, I say, men are apt by such false reasonings to deceive themselves unto their eternal Ruine; which makes the consideration of it the more necessary.
Wherefore, I say, lastly upon the whole, that who so find themselves under the Power of this wretched Frame, who are sensible in themselves, or at least make it evident unto others, that they are under a Decay in their Spiritual Condition; if they rest in that State, without groaning, labouring, endeavouring for deliverance from it, they can have no well grounded hopes in themselves of Life and Immortality; yea, they are in those Paths which go down unto the Chambers of Death.