Tag: the mind

• A Steadfast Mind (2)

  And there are three parts of this steadfastness of the mind: (1) full purpose of cleaving to God in all things; (2) a daily renovation and quickening of the heart unto a discharge of this purpose; (3) resolutions against all dalliances or parleys about negligence in that discharge… – John Owen, The Power and Efficacy…

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  February 20, 2010

  Spirituality, The Christian Mind

  John Owen, Spirituality, The Christian Mind, the mind

• A Steadfast Mind

  The steadfastness of our minds abiding in their duty is the cause of all our unmovableness and fruitfulness in obedience; and so Peter tells us that those who are by any means led away or enticed “fall from their own steadfastness” (2 Pet. 3:17). And the great blame that is laid upon backsliders is that…

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  February 19, 2010

  Spirituality, The Christian Mind

  John Owen, Spirituality, The Christian Mind, the mind

• The Mind and Sin’s Deceitfulness

  In ch. 8 of his The Power and Efficacy of Indwelling Sin, John Owen elaborates on Hebrews 3:13 (“Take heed that you be not hardened by the deceitfulness of sin”) and discusses the role of the mind in the deceitfulness of sin: Deceit properly affects the mind; it is the mind that is deceived… But…

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  February 7, 2010

  Theology

  John Owen, sin, the mind, Theology