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A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief…
A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and forms / by John Owen ...
London: printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But when the whole matter and means of it was gradually insinuated into, and at length comprised in those Forms of Prayer, which they were obliged continually to use in Divine Service, their whole Souls became leavened and tainted with a confidence in, and love unto these Abominations.
But when the whole matter and means of it was gradually insinuated into, and at length comprized in those Forms of Prayer, which they were obliged continually to use in Divine Service, their whole Souls became leavened and tainted with a confidence in, and love unto these Abominations.
Hence it was, that the Doctrines concerning the Sacraments and the whole worship of God in the Church, as they became gradually corrupted, were not at once Objectively and Doctrinally proposed to the minds and considerations of men, to be received or rejected according to the Evidence they had of their Truth or Error (a method due to the Constitution of our Natures) but gradually insinuated into their practice by Additional Forms of Prayer, which they esteemed themselves obliged to use and observe. This was the gilding of the poisonous Pill, whose operation, when it was swallowed, was to bereave men of their Sense, Reason, and Faith, and make them madly avow that to be true, which was contrary unto them all.
Hence it was, that the Doctrines concerning the Sacraments and the whole worship of God in the Church, as they became gradually corrupted, were not at once Objectively and Doctrinally proposed to the minds and considerations of men, to be received or rejected according to the Evidence they had of their Truth or Error (a method due to the Constitution of our Natures) but gradually insinuated into their practice by Additional Forms of Prayer, which they esteemed themselves obliged to use and observe. This was the gilding of the poysonous Pill, whose operation, when it was swallowed, was to bereave men of their Sense, Reason, and Faith, and make them madly avow that to be true, which was contrary unto them all.