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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.
(3) It is required that our Affections be so set on Spiritual things, so as to be a continual Spring of Spiritual thoughts and Meditations. No man can be so forsaken of Reason, as to suppose that he hath any sincere affections for what he thinks little on, or not at all; or that he can have a true Affection for any thing which will not stir up, and ingenerate in him continual Thoughts about it. Let men try themselves as unto their Relations, or their Enjoyments, or the Objects of their predominant Lusts, and they will find how things are stated in their own Minds. And therefore whereas all men pretend to love God and Christ, and the ways of God, and yet know in their own Hearts, that they little think of them, or meditate upon them, both ⟨p. 315⟩their Pretence and Religion is vain. Where our Affections are duly placed on Heavenly things, so as that we are indeed Spiritually Minded, they will be a constant Spring of Spiritual Thoughts and Meditation. But this also hath been before spoken unto.
(3) It is required that our Affections be so set on Spiritual things, so as to be a continual Spring of Spiritual thoughts and Meditations. No man can be so forsaken of Reason, as to suppose that he hath any sincere affections for what he thinks little on, or not at all; or that he can have a true Affection for any thing which will not stir up, and ingenerate in him continual Thoughts about it. Let men try themselves as unto their Relations, or their Enjoyments, or the Objects of their predominant Lusts, and they will find how things are stated in their own Minds. And therefore whereas all men pretend to love God and Christ, and the wayes of God, and yet know in their own Hearts, that they little think of them, or meditate upon them, both ⟨p. 315⟩their Pretence and Religion is vain. Where our Affections are duely placed on Heavenly things, so as that we are indeed Spiritually Minded, they will be a constant Spring of Spiritual Thoughts and Meditation. But this also hath been before spoken unto.