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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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SECT. XIII.
The first of these is the Doctrine and Grace of Mortification; That this is not only an important Evangelical Duty, but also of indispensable necessity unto Salvation, all who have any thing of Christian Religion in themselves, must acknowledge.
The first of these is the Doctrine and Grace of Mortification; That this is not only an important Evangelical Duty, but also of indispensable necessity unto Salvation, all who have any thing of Christian Religion in themselves, must acknowledg.
It is also clearly determined in the Scripture, both what is the nature of it, with its causes, and in what acts and duties it doth consist. For it is frequently declared to be the crucifying of the Body of Sin with all the Lusts thereof. For Mortification must be the bringing of something to death; and this is sin, and the dying of sin, consists in the casting out of all vicious habits and inclinations arising from the Original depravation of nature; it is the weakening and graduate extirpation, or destruction of them, in their roots, principles, and operations: Whereby the Soul is set at liberty to act universally from the contrary principle of Spiritual Life and Grace.
It is also clearly determined in the Scripture, both what is the nature of it, with its causes, and in what acts and duties it doth consist. For it is frequently declared to be the crucifying of the Body of Sin with all the Lusts thereof. For Mortification must be the bringing of something to death; and this is sin, and the dying of sin, consists in the casting out of all vitious habits and inclinations arising from the Original depravation of nature; it is the weakning and graduate extirpation, or destruction of them, in their roots, principles, and operations: Whereby the Soul is set at liberty to act universally from the contrary principle of Spiritual Life and Grace.