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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 4: The Fourth 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. FAITH will evidence its Truth, (which is that we enquire after) in its sincere endeavour after the things intended, though its Attainments as unto some of them be but mean and low: Yea, a sense of its coming short in a full answering of them or Compliance with them, is a great Ingredient in that state called unto: If therefore Faith keep up this design in the Soul, with a sincere pursuit of it, though it fail in many things, and is not sensible ⟨p. 74⟩of any great Progress it makes, it will therein evidence its Sincerity.
2. WHEREAS there are sundry things, as we shall see, required hereunto, it is not necessary that they should be found all equally in all who design this State and Frame. Some may be more eminent in one of them, some in another; some may have great Helps and Furtherances unto some of them in a peculiar manner, and some great Obstructions in the Exercise of some of them. But it is required, that they be all radically in the Heart, and be put forth in Exercise sometimes on their proper Occasions.
3. THIS state in the Description of it will sufficiently distinguish it self from that Discontent of Mind whereon some withdraw themselves from the Occasions of Life, rather condemning others than themselves on mere Weariness of the Disappointments of the World, which hath cast some into crooked Paths.
3. THIS state in the Description of it will sufficiently distinguish it self from that Discontent of Mind whereon some withdraw themselves from the Occasions of Life, rather condemning others than themselves on meer Weariness of the Disappointments of the World, which hath cast some into crooked Paths.