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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) A Person so minded, and he alone, will have a due Valuation of such Intimations and Pledges of Divine Love. Those who are full of other things, whose Affections cleave unto them, do never esteem Heavenly Mercies and Privileges, as they ought▪ The full Soul loatheth the Honey-Comb. And God is well pleased, when an high Valuation is put upon his kindness; as he is greatly provoked by the contrary Frame; which indeed nothing but infinite Patience ⟨p. 328⟩could bear withal. It is an high Provocation of God, when men are regardless of, and unthankful for Outward temporal Mercies; when they receive them and use them as if they were their own, that they were Lords of them, at least, that they are due unto them. Much more is he provoked with our regardlessness of the least of those Mercies, which are the peculiar purchase of the Blood of his Son, and the Effects of his Eternal Love and Grace. He alone who is spiritually-Minded, valueth, prizeth, and lays up these inestimable Jewels in a due manner.
(3) A Person so minded, and he alone, will have a due Valuation of such Intimations and Pledges of Divine Love. Those who are full of other things, whose Affections cleave unto them, do never esteem Heavenly Mercies and Priviledges, as they ought▪ The full Soul loatheth the Honey-Comb. And God is well pleased, when an high Valuation is put upon his kindness; as he is greatly provoked by the contrary Frame; which indeed nothing but infinite Patience ⟨p. 328⟩could bear withal. It is an high Provocation of God, when men are regardless of, and unthankful for Outward temporal Mercies; when they receive them and use them as if they were their own, that they were Lords of them, at least, that they are due unto them. Much more is he provoked with our regardlesness of the least of those Mercies, which are the peculiar purchase of the Blood of his Son, and the Effects of his Eternal Love and Grace. He alone who is spiritually-Minded, valueth, prizeth, and layes up these ininestimable Jewels in a due manner.