PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Works of John Owen — Volume 17
John Owen · 272,629 words · 274 reading sections
Section 181
CAP. II.] DE THEOLOGIA EV ANGELICA. 415 CAPUT II. Theologise evangelicae auctor Christus; cognitione voluntatis divinae perfectissime instructus — Scientiae perfectissimse Christ! inediatorLs fundamentum, Job. i. 18 — Modus, plenitude, perfectio absolutissima — Revelatio voluntatis divinse ei scientise conformis — Th…
943 wordsSECTION 182Section 182
2. Secundo, " Iterum nasci eum oportere docet, seu spiritualiter renatum esse, qui doctrinam istam, quam exhibet, salutariter aut utiliter cognoscere velit, hoc est, in eum finem, cui ab auctore sanc- tissimo destinatur." Atque hie immane quantum distat ab omni humana sapientia. Sint etenim homines omni literarum gener…
1,047 wordsSECTION 183Section 183
IV. Brevi indicatur^ sub uno aspectu res ha3c tota poni potest. Omnis divina veritas est in Scripturis per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum revelata. Ea doctrina theologia est ev angelica, in ab- stracto considerata. Ilia vero in propositionibus, quarum sensus rationi humane est expositus, continetur. Propositiones istaB…
973 wordsSECTION 184Section 184
422 DE THEOLOGIA EVANGELICA. [LIB. VI. quam sibi magis sunt Stiffen!, aut profanis quibusdam irrisoribus in deliciis, quam ciim se scite et jocose Spiritum Dei piis inliabitantern exagitare putant. Deinde ; cum nulla dona regni Christi acceperint, quemcunque tandem locum in ecclesiis occupant, aut nihil omnino, aut pa…
1,131 wordsSECTION 185Section 185
V. In testimonio hoc ferendo discipulo et apostolo suo prseivit ipse omnium nostrum Magister et Dominus Jesus Christus: Job. iii. 3, 'Eav (Li) rig, inquit, ysvvriQy avtoQsv, ou dvvarat !5&Tv rfy (SaffiXsiav ra\j 0£oD. To videre idem esse, ac rb scire aut intelligere, nemo negabit: is usus est " verborum sensus" in sacr…
1,052 wordsSECTION 186Section 186
VII. Ex considerations demum finis omnis verse theologize eadem veritas elucescit. Per theologiam naturalem primigeniam, seu §sory- vufftav efApvrov, ante peccati ingressum hominem Deo similem aut con form em, et ad obedientiam ei rite praestandam habilem et idoneum factum fuisse, satis abunde demonstravimus. Yera3 aut…
925 wordsSECTION 187Section 187
CAP. V.] DE TIIEOLOGIA EVANGELICA. 429 sirsira ayovrui u<p' qfAoov svQa vdup effTi, nod rponov , ov xai ^s?g avroi avsy&vvqQ'rifAzv, avayswuvrar — " Quicunque persuasi fuerint et crediderint vera esse, quse a nobis traduntur et dicuntur, ac vivere se ita posse receperunt, orare jejunantes, et petere a Deo priorum pecc…
908 wordsSECTION 188Section 188
queri, horrescere, votis se ad obedientiam praBstandam alligare, justi- ,iam legis sequi, officia praBscripta facere, aliquoties superstitionibus )ravis se dedere, omnique modo sollicite liberationem petere. Hasc o, atque hujusmodi alia, fidi apud nos Dei ministri fuse ad po- nilum enarrant, testimoniis atque exempl…
1,007 wordsSECTION 189Section 189
Ka< yap <r* ova.p IK A/a? Iffrtv. — Iliad, i. 63. Eratque peculiare somniorum genus, quaB antiqui oveipovg vocabant. O/ && ro/oDro/, inquit Eustathius in Iliad. A., roD ovsifov KXqffiv u$ TO ov, qroi rb a>.«j0e$, etyovrsf nai X'syovres' Bib xai ri Q ro/oDrog ovsipog shsyero, dia rb ovap (pafvetv. VII. Eundem effectu…
1,099 wordsSECTION 190Section 190
436 DE THEOLOGIA EVANGELICA. [LIB. VI. 19. Omnia igitur a liberrima Dei gratia et beneplacito exspectanda edocti, ab ejus voluntate toti dependere satagunt, neque malorum remedia, quse anhelant, turbate aut impatienter quserere, Hab. ii. 2-4. Ea animi consternatio, ea spiritus dejectio, is cordis metus et tremor, ea o…
904 wordsSECTION 191Section 191
CAPUT VI. Theologia donorum spiritualium o-y^Ao*oj — Dona extraordinaria vel ordinaria— Ordinaria ministerio peculiaria vel communia — Donorum omnium largitor Christus, Ps. Ixviii. 19; Actor, ii. 33; Eph. iv. 8 — ^i^ et accipere et dare significat — Christus donorum spiritualium auctor per Spiritum, Job. vii. 39 ; Act…
974 wordsSECTION 192Section 192
440 BE THEOLOGIA EVANGELICA. [LIB. VI. avrou ev ro?g ayioig, xat ri rb utfgpCaXXoi/ /t'sysdos r5j£ dvvdfLsug aurov tig j}/*ag, rov$ fiffrsvovras" TJtinam quibus in tenebris versantur, ex ver- bis hisce apostoli, nonnulli discere vellent aut possent. III. Theologia itaque hsec nostra x&purpa, est vrvevpanxov, 1 Cor. i…
1,037 wordsSECTION 193Section 193
IX. Modus autem communicationis huic sapientise peculiaris, earn ab omni sapientia seculari, et scientia systematica seu disciplinari plurimu.m distare probat. 'H/^g/g vow Xp/tfroD s^o^ev, inquit apos tolus, 1 Cor. ii. 16; hoc est, novimus, intelligimus. Qui id vero; nempe, inquit, ver. 12, Ou rb KV&V/J.O, roD X^O/AOU …
1,226 wordsSECTION 194Section 194
CAP. VI.] DE THEOLOGIA EVANGELICA. 445 Ps. cxix. 34 et 104 Ob lumen itaque hoc intellectum in actu suo perficiens, scientia ilia, qua vrvevparixa fideles vrvsvpanKus percipiunt, et non solum ratione veritatis objects, abs omni humana scientia immane quantum distat. XV. Porro : sapientia base, nexu indissolubili affec…
917 wordsSECTION 195Section 195
CAP. VIL] DE THEOLOGIA EVANGELTCA. 447 nulla est. Ita enim apostolus, rfl/ yty pq irupttin ravra, rv<p\6$ Ian, utrdfuv, 2 Pet. i. 8, 9. XVI. Disputationem absolvat totius brevis indicatura. Veritatem in sacra scriptura revelatam, ut renati ad suam gloriam, propriamque salutem percipiant, intelligantque, curat Deus e…
1,090 wordsSECTION 196Section 196
IV. Exacto ministerio praBparatorio, ecclesise visibiliter colligendse, et a mundo separandse opus, ab ipso Christo apostolis, evangelistis, et discipulis aliis, cuique pro virili commissum est. Illi quos qua- lesve in ovile Christi coegerint, ipsi ubivis decent Renati fuere, vocati vocatione sancta et efficaci, pii, f…
1,027 wordsSECTION 197Section 197
IX. Quinto, Ut omnia in ecclesiis suis ad voluntatem Dei rite peragerentur, theologiam hanc evangelicam, in scripta suo jussu re- 1 Vol. xvi. operum hujus editionis. — ED. 452 DE THEOLOGIA EV ANGELICA. [LIB. VI. latam, hoc est, verbum suum, unicam fidei, obedientiae et cultus omnis normam et regulam esse voluit ; at…
1,305 wordsSECTION 198Section 198
CAP. VIII.] DE THEOLOGIA EVANGELICA, 455 tuit, Processu autem temporis, non sine foeda sacrorum Christi institutorum conspurcatione, ecclesiarum praefecti omnem gentium colluviem in eas admiserunt. Exemplo sit per Augustinum mona- chum Anglorum ad baptismalem aquam admissio, quam ex antique ejus aetatis fragmento in B…
1,059 wordsSECTION 199Section 199
IX. Quintb, Defectionem a plenitudine scripturarum, cujus culpse se alligarunt antiquae ecclesia3, cum res ex multorum scriptis satis nota sit, memorare baud opus est. Paucis agam. Cum multum ponderis et momenti in eis rebus nonnulli posuerint, quarum in sacris Scripturis nulla mentio facta est, quasque ob earn ratione…
915 wordsSECTION 200Section 200
III. Sed testimonia coacervare instituti nostri non est Non de- fuisse viros magnos, sanctosque, qui ad versus hujus atque praeteri- torum aliquot seculorum opinionem et praxim, suffragium tulerunt, 460 DE PHILOSOPHISE CUM THEOLOGIA MISTURA. [LIB. VI. sat erit indicasse. Quid ipse in causa Lac sentiam, brevi dicam; b…
908 wordsSECTION 201Section 201
462 DE PHILOSOPHIC CUM THEOLOGIA MISTUKA. [LIB. VL tere sunt conati. Hinc Christum ipsum nonnulli umbram, phan- tasma, id earn, merum hominem, hominem spiritualem deificatum, etiam solem esse somniarunt ; fidem vero nudam rerum spiritualium notitiam, aut scientiam, vel etiam perfectionis fanaticaa opinationem vanam. A…
994 wordsSECTION 202Section 202
X. Verum quidem est, illos sacrarum scripturarum libris usos fuisse ; atque, qua3 in iis continentur, vera esse omnia confesses. Ve- runtamen philosophia ista peripatetica penitus imbuti, et disputandi seu prurigine abrepti, seu scotomate percussi, istinsmodi theologiaa corpus, quod aiunt, confecerunt, quod sanctissima…
913 wordsSECTION 203Section 203
XIV. Rixarum etiam infinitarum, atque inutilium disputationum materiam vulgatam philosophiam affatim suppeditare, res ipsa cla- mat. Hac freti homines acuti et dicaces, » Statum lacessunt omnipotentis Dei Calumniosis litibus. Fidera minutis dissecant ambagibus, Ut quisque est lingua nequior. Solvunt ligantque quaest…
979 wordsSECTION 204Section 204
CAP. IX.] DE THEOLOGIZE STUDIO. 469 CAPUT IX. De studio theologiae seu Scripturarum. I. NATUKAM, ortum, progressum, et ampliationem variam theolo gies, sen doctrinse de Deo, voluntate illius, ac obedientia nostra ei debita, pro instituti nostri ratione exposuimus. Habitum etiam mentis seu intellectus, quo doctrinam …
913 wordsSECTION 205Section 205
IX. Secundo, Dona base sola bomines reddunt d/Saxr/xoug; illo rum enim virtute txavoi efficimur, ad alios, qua ipsi imbuti sumus, bona Cbristi cognitione instruendos. Cui autem base adsunt, boc est, lumen salutare mentem elevans et disponens ad salutarem veri tatis evangelicae perception em, atque dona ista Spiritus Sa…
951 wordsSECTION 206Section 206
XIII. Optandum sane esset, ut ii, quibus studiosae juventutis in- struendaa provincia obtingit, majorem curam, diligentiam, et pru- dentiam, quam vulgo in scholis et academiis fit, adhiberent, qua solidam in artibus hisce doctrinam, et peritiam utilem studiosi con- sequerentur. Certissimum enim est, superficial am et i…
1,060 wordsSECTION 207Section 207
47G .T)E THEOLOGIZE STUDIO. '^LIB. VI. nempe, " plures se vidisse ignaros, qui vix latin & intelligerent, qui tantum lumen bauserint ex saeris Scripturis, ut ipse obstupuerit, cum professores omrii studiorum assiduitate, simile quid docere baud potuerint." Bene est, quod Jesuita erat, et vir doctus. Etiam et Erasmum P…
954 wordsSECTION 208Section 208
XXIV. Donee autem haec atque hujusmodi alia, quse studium theologiae aggredientibus non tantum. plurimum obstant, sed etiam in miras frustrationes eos impellunt, removeantur, non mirum videri debet, si post multum temporisin studio theologiae impensum, plures philosophi, aut qui aliens laudi invidere tantum no runt, qu…
929 wordsSECTION 209Section 209
XXXI. Deinde, anima iidelis iis orationibus assidue fundendis, quas suggerit iste Spiritus, quern nobis ad sublevandas infirmi- tates nostras Deus gratiose largitur, communionem cum Deo ipso in niaximis evangelii mysteriis obtinet, eoque in eorum cognitione ex exercitio isto indies augetur. Dum enim anima per fidem vim…
901 wordsSECTION 210Section 210
414. vi. 28, .. 330. xxviii. 18, 19, 22, 217. xxiv. 24, 171. viiL 27, .. 344. xxxi. 19, 344. xxv. 3, 325. viii. 33, .. 328. xxxi. 19, 34, 35, 324. xxv. 18, 325. ix.4, .. 328. xxxi. 47, 269. xxxi. 15, 16, . . 325. x. 6, .. 327,337. xxxiv. 23, .. 375. xxxiii. 4, 100. x. 14, . . 324. xxxv. 1-4, …
900 wordsSECTION 211Section 211
324. iv.1-4, 449. vi. 45, .. 420,426. viii. 16, 337. iv. 4-6, 386. vii. 16,17, .. 415. ix. 1, etc., 286. vii. 17, 446. xi. 19, 437. MATT. vii. 37, 436. xiv. 14, 157. iii. 2, 9, 10, .. 449. vii. 39, 439. xx. 7, 8, 324. iii. 7, 137. viii. 31,32, .. 446. xxi. 21, .. 324,344. iii. 9, 405.…
901 wordsSECTION 212Section 212
452. ii. 11, 12, .. 418,437. viii. 8, 420. iii. 5, .. 417,432. ix.22, 73. EPHES. ix. 31, 32, .. x.3, x. 17, 435. 435. 54. i. 1, 2, 13, i. 8, 9, 17-19, 449. 460. i. 1, i.1,2, HEB. .. 134,411. .. 126,411. xi.4, 327. i. 9, 17, 84. 413. xii. 1,2, 13, .. xii. 2, xv. 8, xv. 19, xv. 30, 449. 425. 414. 45…
900 wordsSECTION 213Section 213
Beda, 150, 190, 232, 242, 294, 297, 455. Bellarminus, 117, 120, 121, 123, 130, 139, 351, 359, 379. Benjaminus Tudelensis, 310, 311. Bereshith Rabb., 162, 263. Berosus, 153, 154, 285. Bibliander, 274. Bidellus, 196. Bochartus, 97, 168, 170, 171, 175, 192, 234, 278, 280, 281. Boderianus, 138. Bodinus, 347. Boiss…
913 wordsSECTION 214Section 214
Lactantius, 29, 33, 48, 78, 97, 104, 112, 113, 125, 151, 166, 189, 196, 221, 252, 254. Laertius, 33, 80, 190, 214, 236, 304, 377, 378. Lampridius, 213, 246, 248. Lelandus, 243. Lessius, 139. Liudanus, 145. Linus, 91. Lipsius, 190, 280. Livius, 128, 130, 159, 169, 214. Lluddus, 233. Lorinus, 347. Lucanus, 93, 99, 105, …
927 wordsSECTION 215Section 215
125, 131, 151, 153, 162, 163, 206, 242, 252, 259, 286, 298, 338, 396, 400, 411, 413, 439, 459, 462, 466. Thales, 30, 91, 92. Themistius, 215. Theodoretus, 78, 106, 113, 143, 171, 252, 298, 305, 326. Theodosius, 147. Theodotion, 144, 382. Theophilus Alexandrinus, 78. Theophilus Antiochenus, 78, 80, 99. Theophilus Joha…
990 wordsSECTION 216Section 216
I SHALL not insist upon the particular opening of these words, but only take some observations from them : — First, This is a very instructive similitude this of silver and dross; therefore it is often made use of by the Holy Ghost: Isa. i. 21, 22, "How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judg ment ;…
966 wordsSECTION 217Section 217
When is a people so overgrown with dross as that it is necessary the good and the bad should go into the same furnace? I shall name but two plain things : — 1. When the generality of a people are openly wicked and pro fane. You will see in the following verses of this chapter the rea son given why God will put them a…
925 wordsSECTION 218Section 218
Secondly, God hath called out his workmen to set up a furnace. The workmen that God calls out in the world are not to make the fining-pot, but men that work in mortar and brick, fit to build a great furnace. And there are all sorts of them; — the Lord help us! God employs his workmen to build the furnace; — some by vio…
911 wordsSECTION 219Section 219
2. We may hope yet that the decree is not gone forth, and we may beg that God would not use these workmen. Now, if we should beg of God that he would yet cause the furnace to pass away, if we find it coming, and if we find our hearts enlarged to pray, and God bowing down his ear to hear, let us continue to ask further,…
931 wordsSECTION 220Section 220
First, It was a time when there was a mighty prevalent principle of atheism got into the world, got among the great men of the world. Saith he, * That is their principle, they say in their hearts, " There is no God."' It is true, they did not absolutely profess it; but it was the principle whereby all their actings wer…
912 wordsSECTION 221Section 221
502 THE WISDOM OF MAKING THE LORD OUR REFUGE. a course as this is, he tells you, verse 5, notwithstanding all this, they were in great fear. " There were they in great fear," saith he. May be so, for they saw some evil coming upon them. No, there was nothing but the hand of God in it; for in Ps. liii. 5, where these w…
1,128 wordsSECTION 222Section 222
504r 1HE WISDOM OF MAKING THE LOUD OUR REFUGE by we are relieved do proceed. And let us, any of us, set ourselves1' to the most glorious stream that appears for our refreshment, if we do not by faith trace it unto the immensity of God's nature, we shall deal with it as behemoth thinks to do with Jordan, drink all up, …
982 wordsSECTION 223Section 223
2. God, to show it to be our duty and wisdom, doth immediately propose the very properties of his nature for our relief: Isa. xl. 27, " Why sayest thou, 0 Jacob, and speakest, 0 Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?" — words whose sense are often ready to possess our hearts: I…
967 wordsSECTION 224Section 224
The reasons of it are, — 1. They know not God; and it is a foolish thing to trust one knows not whom. 2. They are enemies to God, and God is their enemy; and they account it a foolish thing to trust their enemy. 3. They know not the way of God's assistance and help. And, — 4. They seek for such help, such assistanc…
1,182 wordsSECTION 225Section 225
Upon the consideration hereof, that so great and mighty a nation should come and swallow up the people, and there would be no standing before them, upon the strangeness of it, the prophet falls under a double, deep temptation: and, let us do what we will or can-, we shall find something of those temptations exercise ou…
931 wordsSECTION 226Section 226
First, He may be looked upon as a public minister of the church, and so having received a vision from God, it was his duty to observe what would be the issue of it, what would become of it. It is the duty of all public ministers of God, whether ordinary or extraordinary, to look after the event, and success, and issue…
921 wordsSECTION 227Section 227
Consider ourselves as men, poor creatures, consider ourselves as sinful men, we have reason to expect reproof from God. Consider ourselves as men: Job iv. 17-19, " Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? Be hold, he put no trust in his servants ; and his angels he charged with …
965 wordsSECTION 228Section 228
(3.) There is Israel's answer: Ps. Ixxviii. 34-36, "When he slew them, then they sought him : and they returned and inquired early after God. And they remembered that God was their rock, and the FAITH'S ANSWER TO DIVINE REPROOFS. 515 high God their redeemer." But what then ? " Nevertheless they did flatter him with t…
946 wordsSECTION 229Section 229
The reasons hereof are these : There is no other answer, 1 . Be cause in every other answer we should attempt the soul is lifted up The prophet doth distribute all things that can be said to God when we are reproved under these two heads ; — one of them, " whose soul is lifted up, and that is not upright in him;" and t…
1,099 wordsSECTION 230Section 230
I thought to have showed you what is required of us that we may be able to manage this plea aright, that it be not presumption in us ; as, a stable self-condemnation without reservation, a prospect and view of the atonement made by Christ, and casting ourselves upon him to undertake for us. SERMON IV. SPIRITUAL STREN…
1,214 wordsSECTION 231Section 231
Secondly, This strength of believers, which is the actings of the principle of grace and holiness in them, is subject unto decays. " Be watchful," saith Christ in the counsel he gives unto the church of Sardis, Rev. iii. 2, "and strengthen the things which remain, that are SPIRITUAL STRENGTH. 521 ready to die : for I…
987 wordsSECTION 232Section 232
Whence is it that the renewing and increase of spiritual strength depend upon our waiting on God? There is not any thing in this world wherein we are more concerned, next to the securing our in terest in Jesus Christ, than this one thing of renewing our strength, our spiritual strength. Especially it is of great concer…
933 wordsSECTION 233Section 233
I pray let us believe that there is nothing in this world, but only the gospel of Christ, and the interest of Christ, and the grace and mercy of God in the covenant, but it is liable to a destructive dissolu tion. It is the law that hath passed upon all things since the en trance of sin. All alterations tend to dissolu…
1,032 wordsSECTION 234Section 234
' Ay, but things in the world may come into such a combination as that they may be preserved from any danger of such a dissolution/ No; Ezek. xxi. 26, 27, "Thussaith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, o…
902 wordsSECTION 235Section 235
The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee." In an apprehension of the mutable con dition of himself and all things wherein he was concerned, he be takes himself unto an interest in the immutability of God. There is nothing firm, stable, unchangeable, but God himself: "…
1,039 wordsSECTION 236Section 236
The next observation is this, That upon the approach of a destruc tive dissolution, it is required of all professors to be signal in holi ness: " Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness?" I take here an approaching, destructive disso…
964 wordsSECTION 237Section 237
3. A people are then secure when God's warnings among them are despised. I am persuaded that, such is the goodness and tender ness of God to mankind, so little is he delighted in bringing sore judgments upon them, to their ruin and destruction, he scarce ever destroyed the most wicked and idolatrous nation, — those tha…
905 wordsSECTION 238Section 238
Why are a people to be thus secure ? for, as I told you before, God doth not bring destruction ordinarily upon any but upon a secure people. One reason is taken irom God, and another reason is taken from the devil. 1. God gives men up to security in a way of judiciary harden ing of them. God hath now determined their …
914 wordsSECTION 239Section 239
LIABILITY OF ALL THINGS TO DISSOLUTION. 535 and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you." A man would think they had something else to do at such a day, when nation rises again…
1,077 wordsSECTION 240Section 240
THE OBLIGATION TO INCREASE IN GODLINESS. 537 also to judge his people. We are wonderfully apt to have pleasant thoughts, that when the Lord comes forth in judgment on the world professors shall be hid, and shall escape. No; saith he, "Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense;" and again, " The Lord shall judge h…
1,055 wordsSource & rights
Public-domain historical edition (1850–1870); OCR text from Internet Archive. OCR may contain scanning/transcription errors. Verify quotations against page images when precision matters.
Project Gutenberg source record →
Historical Christian writing; not Scripture.