OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. speculation, or ratiocination merely; which is danoia, or sunesis. But this phronesis is its power as it is practical, including thehabitual frameand inclination of the affections also. It is its faculty to conceive of things with a delight in them and adherence unto them from that suitableness which it finds in them, unto all its affections. Hence we translate phoncein sometimes to think, that is, to conceive and judge, Rom. xii. 3. Sometimes to set the affections, Col,. iii. 3. to have such an apprehension of things as to cleave unto them with our affections. Sometimes to mind; to mind earthly things, Phi.1 iii. 19, which includeth that relish and savor which the mind -finds in the things it is fixed on. No where doth it design a notional con. ception of things only ; but principally the engage- ment of the affections unto the things which the mind apprehends. Phromema, the word here used, expresseth the actual exercise tes phronteseos, of the power of the mind before described. Wherefore the minding of the spirit is the actual exercise of the mind as renewed by the Holy Ghost, as furnished with a principle of spiritual life and light in its conception of spiritual things, and the setting of its affection of them, as finding that rely ish and savof in them, wherewith it is pleased and sat- isfied. And somethingwe must yet further observe, to give light unto this description on theminding of theSpirit, as it is here spoken of. 1. It is not spoken of absolutely as unto what it is in itself, but with respect unto its power and prevalency in us; significantly rendered to be spiritually minded; that is, to have the mind changed and renewed by a principleof spiritual life and light, so as tobe continually
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