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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.
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2. THE Soul sees in them a representation of the Grace, Patience, and pardoning Mercy of God: Thus and thus was it with me, God might justly have cast me off for ever; he might have cut me off in the midst of these sins, so as that I should have had no leisure to have cried for Mercy; and perhaps some of them were Sins long continued in. O the infinite Patience of God that spared me! the infinite Grace and Mercy of God that forgave unto me these provoking Iniquities! This Frame is expressed Psal. 103. 3, 4.
3. THE Soul sees herein the efficacy of the Mediation and Blood of Christ, 1 Joh. 2. 2. Whence is it that I have deliverance from the Guilt of these sins? that way was made for the advancing of Grace in ⟨p. 84⟩the Pardon of them? Whence is it that my Soul and Conscience are purged from the stain and filth of them? Here the whole Glory of the Love and Grace of Christ in his Mediation, with the Worth of the Atonement that he made, and the Ransom that he paid, with the Efficacy of his Blood to purge us from all our sins, is represented unto the Mind of the Believer: So out of the Eater comes forth Meat, and hereby a Reconciliation is made between the deepest Humiliation, and a refreshing Sense of the Love of God, and Peace with him.
3. THE Soul sees herein the efficacy of the Mediation and Blood of Christ, 1 Joh. 2. 2. Whence is it that I have deliverance from the Guilt of these sins? that way was made for the advancing of Grace in ⟨p. 84⟩the Pardon of them? Whence is it that my Soul and Conscience are purged from the stain and filth of them? Here the whole Glory of the Love and Grace of Christ in his Mediation, with the Worth of the Attonement that he made, and the Ransom that he paid, with the Efficacy of his Blood to purge us from all our sins, is represented unto the Mind of the Believer: So out of the Eater comes forth Meat, and hereby a Reconciliation is made between the deepest Humiliation, and a refreshing Sense of the Love of God, and Peace with him.