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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
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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.
HEREBY are the Faculties of our Souls exalted, elevated, and enabled to act primigenial Powers, with respect unto God, and our Enjoyment of him, which is our utmost End and Blessedness. Hereby are our Affections placed on their proper Objects, (such as they were created meet for, and in closing wherewith their Satisfaction, Order, and Rest doth consist) namely, God and his Goodness, or God as revealed in Jesus Christ by the Gospel; hereby all the Powers of our Souls are brought into a blessed Frame and Harmony in all their Operations, whatever is dark, perverse, unquiet, vise and base, being cast out of them; but these things must be a little more distinctly explained.
1. THERE is in this Gospel-Holiness, as the Spring and Principle of it, a spiritual saving Light, enabling the Mind and Understanding to know God in Christ, and to discern spiritual things in a spiritual ⟨p. 52⟩saving manner; for herein God shines into our Hearts, to give us the Knowledge of his Glory in the Face of Jesus Christ, 2 Cor. 4. 6. Without this, in some Degree, whatever pretence there may be, or Appearance of Holiness in any, there is nothing in them of what is really so, and thereon accepted with God. Blind Devotion, that is, an Inclination of Mind unto Religious Duties destitute of this Light, will put Men on a Multiplication of Duties, especially such as are of their own Invention, in a show of Wisdom in Will-worship, Humility, and neglecting of the Body, as the Apostle speaks Col. 1. 23. wherein there is nothing of Gospel-Holiness.
1. THERE is in this Gospel-Holiness, as the Spring and Principle of it, a spiritual saving Light, enabling the Mind and Understanding to know God in Christ, and to discern spiritual things in a spiritual ⟨p. 52⟩