Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded Chapter 1 Modernized

The aim of this narration is to give the listeners Owen's Treatise in the most modern English possible consistent with keeping to the original text. John Owen, "there are such great and pregnant evidences of the prevalence of an earthly, worldly frame of spirit in many who make a profession of religion, that it is high time they were called to a due consideration of how at odds they are in this, to the power and spirituality of that religion which they profess. There is no way by which such a frame may be shown to prevail in many (indeed, in most such professors), that is not already manifest to all. In their habits, attires, and vestments, in their usual converse and misspent time, in their overly-liberal entertainment of themselves and others, to the borders of excess — and sundry other things of a like nature — there is in many, such a conformity to the world (a thing severely forbidden) that it is hard to make a distinction between them."