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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.
(1) Those in whom they are, never had a clear Spiritual view of the things themselves, in their own Nature which they pretend to be affected withal.
(2) They have not a sincere Love unto them, and delight in them, for their own sakes, but are only affected with some outward Circumstances and Concernments of them.
(3) They find not a suitableness in them unto the ruling Principles of their Minds. They do not practically, they cannot truly say, the Yoke of Christ is easy, and his Burden is light; his Commandments are not grievous; or with the Psalmist, Oh! how do I love thy Law.
(3) They find not a suitableness in them unto the ruling Principles of their Minds. They do not practically, they cannot truely say, the Yoke of Christ is easy, and his Burden is light; his Commandments are not grievous; or with the Psalmist, Oh! how do I love thy Law.
(4) Their Affections are transient, unstable, vanishing, as unto their Exercise and Operations. They are on and off, now pleased, and anon displeased; earnest for a little while, and then cold and indifferent. Hence the things which they seem to effect, have no transforming Efficacy upon their Souls; they dwell not in them, in their Power.