PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Works of John Owen — Volume 5
John Owen · 250,432 words · 247 reading sections
Section 241
In ancient times, sundry persons designed a strict course of morti- fication and penitence, and they always laid the foundation of it in a renunciation of the world; but they fell most of them into a three- fold mistake, wliich ridned the v/hole undertaking. For, — FAITH OF god's ELECT. 447 (1.) They fell into a negl…
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(2.) Tliis mortification of our aft'ections towards these things, our love, desire, and delight, will produce a moderation of passions about them, as fear, anger, sorrow, and the like; such will men be stirred FAITH OF god's ELECT. 449 up unto in those changes, losses, crosses, which these things are sub- ject unto. …
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2. A SECOND thing that belongs hereunto is a peculiar remem- brance of sin, and converse about it in our minds, with self-displi- cency and abhorrency. God hath promised in his covenant that he "will remember our sins no more," — that is, to punish them; but it doth not thence follow that we should no more remember the…
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(1.) What it doth respect; and it hath a twofold object: — [1.] Such past sins as, by reason of their own nature or their aggravations, have left the greatest impression on the conscience. It respects, indeed, in general, all past and known sins that can be called to remembrance ; but usually, in the course of men's l…
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This, therefore, is another thing which belongs unto that state of repentance which faith will bring the soul unto, and whereby it will evidence itself on the occasions before mentioned; and indeed, if this sorrow be constant and operative, there is no clearer evidence in us of saving faith. They are blessed who thus m…
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456 EVIDENCES OF THE duty to preserve. And there is none who hath the least grain of spiritual wisdom, but may understand of what sort these temptations are which he is obnoxious unto. Here, then, faith sets the soul on its watch and guard continually, and makes it ready to combat every temptation on its first appeara…
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