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Phron?ma Tou Pneumatos , or the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded; Declared and Practically Improved
Phronma Tou Pneumatos or the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded Declared and Practically Improved Author:John Owen General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Original Publisher: Pierce and Parker Subjects: Christian life Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mil... more »lion-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI. Directions to the exercise of nur thoughts on things above. Right notions of future Glory stated. Because great difficulties arise in the dischaige of the duty in hand, I shall give some especial directions concerning it- First. Possess your minds with right apprehensions of things above, anil of the state of future glory. We are in this duty, to look at the things which are not seen. It is faith only whereby we have a prospect of them ; for we walk by faith; and. not by sight. And faith e; in give us no interest in them, unless we have due apprehensions of them, for it doth but assent and cleave to the truth of what is proposed to it. And the greatest part of mankind both deceive themselves, and feed on ashes, in this matter. All that have an apprehension of a future state of happiness, agree in this matter, that it contains in it, or is accompanied with, a deliverance from all that is eril. But in what it is so, ihey are not agreed. Many esteem only those things that are grievous, and destructive to nature, to be so ; that is, what is penal, in sickness, sorrow, loss, poverty, with all kinds of outward troubles, and death itself, are evils. Wherefore, they suppose that the future state of blessedness will free ihem from all these thing-, if they can attain to it. This they will lay in the balance against the troubles of life, and sometimes it may be against the pleasures of it, which they must forego. Yea, persons profane and profligate will, in words at least, profess, that heaven will give them rest from all their trouble...« less