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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.
Both these, as here joined together, Life and Peace, do comprise an holy Frame of Heart and Mind, wherein the Souls of Believers do find Rest, Quietness, Refreshment and Satisfaction in God, in the midst of Temptations, Afflictions, Offen•es and Sufferings. It is the Souls Composure of it self in God, in his Love in Christ Jesus, so as not greatly to be put out of Order, to be cast down with any thing that may befall it, but affords men Cheerfulness and Satisfaction in themselves, though they walk sometimes in the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Such Persons have that in them, abiding with them, as will give them Life and Peace under all Occurrences.
Both these, as here joyned together, Life and Peace, do comprize an holy Frame of Heart and Mind, wherein the Souls of Believers do find Rest, Quietness, Refreshment and Satisfaction in God, in the midst of Temptations, Afflictions, Offen•es and Sufferings. It is the Souls Composure of it self in God, in his Love in Christ Jesus, so as not greatly to be put out of Order, to be cast down with any thing that may befall it, but affords men Chearfulness and Satisfaction in themselves, though they walk sometimes in the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Such Persons have that in them, abiding with them, as will give them Life and Peace under all Occurrences.
(2) Our next enquiry is, how this Spiritual Mindedness is Life and Peace, or what it contributes unto them, how it produceth the Frame of Heart and Mind so expressed. And this it doth several ways.
(2) Our next enquiry is, how this Spiritual Mindedness is Life and Peace, or what it contributes unto them, how it produceth the Frame of Heart and Mind so expressed. And this it doth several wayes.