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Gospel grounds and evidences of the faith of God's elect showingGospel grounds and evidences of the faith of God's elect shewing
Gospel grounds and evidences of the faith of God's elect showing : I. The nature of true saving faith, in securing of the spiritual comfort of believers in this life, is of the highest importance, II. The way wherein true faith doth evidence it self in the soul and consciences of believers, unto their supportment and comfort, under all their conflicts with sin, in all their trials and temptations, III. Faith will evidence it self, by a diligent, constant endeavour to keep it self and all grace in due exercise, in all ordinances of divine worship, private and public, IV. A peculiar way whereby true faith will evidence it self, by bringing the soul into a state of repentance / by John Owen ...Gospel grounds and evidences of the faith of God's elect shewing : I. The nature of true saving faith, in securing of the spiritual comfort of believers in this life, is of the highest importance, II. The way wherein true faith doth evidence it self in the soul and consciences of believers, unto their supportment and comfort, under all their conflicts with sin, in all their tryals and temptations, III. Faith will evidence it self, by a diligent, constant endeavour to keep it self and all grace in due exercise, in all ordinances of divine worship, private and publick, IV. A peculiar way whereby true faith will evidence it self, by bringing the soul into a state of repentance / by John Owen ...
London: printed by John Astwood for William Marshal, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Evidence 2: The Second Evidence of the Faith of God's Elect.
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.
1. IT doth so principally in the inward form of it, which we before described; in the new Creature, the new Nature, the Reparation of the Image of God that is in it: In the Beauty hereof, it continually beholds the Likeness and Glory of God; For it is created [Greek or Hebrew], according unto God, after him, or in his Image, in Righteousness and true Holiness, Eph. 4. 24. The new Man is renewed after the Image of him that created him, Col. 3. 10.
1. IT doth so principally in the inward form of it, which we before described; in the new Creature, the new Nature, the Reparation of the Image of God that is in it: In the Beauty hereof, it continually beholds the Likeness and Glory of God; For it is created 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, according unto God, after him, or in his Image, in Righteousness and true Holiness, Eph. 4. 24. The new Man is renewed after the Image of him that created him, Col. 3. 10.
WHEN God first created all things, the Heavens and the Earth, with all that is contained in them, he left such Foot-steps and Impressions of his infinite Wisdom, Goodness and Power, on them, that they might signify and declare his Perfection, his Eternal Power and Godhead; yet did he not, he is not said to have created them in his own Image: And this was, because they were only a passive Representation of him in the Light of others, and not in themselves; nor did they represent at all that wherein God will be principally glorified among his Creatures, namely, the universal Rectitude of his Nature in Righteousness and Holiness: But of Man, it is said peculiarly and only, that he was made in the Image and Likeness of God; and this was, because in the Rectitude of his Nature he represented the Holiness and Righteousness of God, which is the only use of an Image: This was lost by Sin: Man in his fallen Condition