A53719:78
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.
2. The Duty of Prayer is another means of the like Nature. One Principal end of it is to excite, stir up, and draw forth the Principle of Grace, of Faith and Love in the Heart, unto a due Exercise in holy thoughts of God and Spiritual things, with Affections suitable unto them. Those who design not this End in Prayer, know not at all what it is to Pray. Now all sorts of Persons have frequent Occasion to join with others in Prayer, and many are under the Conviction that it is their own Duty to Pray every day, it may be in their Families and otherwise. And it is hard ⟨p. 26⟩to conceive how men can constantly join with others in Prayer, much more how they can Pray themselves, but that they must have thoughts of Spiritual things every day; Howbeit it is possible that they may have no Root, or living spring of them in themselves, but they are only occasional impressions on their minds from the outward performance of the Duty. I shall give some Instances of the Grounds hereof, which on many Reasons require our diligent Consideration.
2. The Duty of Prayer is another means of the like Nature. One Principal end of it is to excite, stir up, and draw forth the Principle of Grace, of Faith and Love in the Heart, unto a due Exercise in holy thoughts of God and Spiritual things, with Affections suitable unto them. Those who design not this End in Prayer, know not at all what it is to Pray. Now all sorts of Persons have frequent Occasion to joyn with others in Prayer, and many are under the Conviction that it is their own Duty to Pray every day, it may be in their Families and otherwise. And it is hard ⟨p. 26⟩to conceive how men can constantly joyn with others in Prayer, much more how they can Pray themselves, but that they must have thoughts of Spiritual things every day; Howbeit it is possible that they may have no Root, or living spring of them in themselves, but they are only occasional impressions on their minds from the outward performance of the Duty. I shall give some Instances of the Grounds hereof, which on many Reasons require our diligent Consideration.