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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.
THIS is not that Approbation of Obedience which we enquire after: It is in some measure in the worst of Men, nor hath it any likeness unto that Duty of Faith which we treat of, as will immediately appear.
2. THERE is a farther Knowledge of Good and Evil by the Law, and this is also accompanied with a Judgment acquitting or condemning: For the Law hath the same judging Power and Authority over Men that their own Consciences have; namely, the Authority of God himself. The Law is to sinners as the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, it opens their Eyes, to see the Nature of what they have done: For by the Law is the Knowledge of sin, Rom. 3. 20. and so is the Knowledge of Duty also; for it is the adequate Rule of all Duty. There is, I say, a Knowledge and Conviction of Duty and Sin, communicated unto Men by the Law, and those far more clear and distinct than what is or can be found in Men, from the mere Light of Nature; for it extends to more Instances, that being generally lost where it is alone, as unto many important Duties and Sins: And it declareth the Nature of every sin and duty, far more clearly than Natural Light of it self can do.
2. THERE is a farther Knowledge of Good and Evil by the Law, and this is also accompanied with a Judgment acquiting or condemning: For the Law hath the same judging Power and Authority over Men that their own Consciences have; namely, the Authority of God himself. The Law is to sinners as the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, it opens their Eyes, to see the Nature of what they have done: For by the Law is the Knowledge of sin, Rom. 3. 20. and so is the Knowledge of Duty also; for it is the adequate Rule of all Duty. There is, I say, a Knowledge and Conviction of Duty and Sin, communicated unto Men by the Law, and those far more clear and distinct than what is or can be found in Men, from the meer Light of Nature; for it extends to more Instances, that being generally lost where it is alone, as unto many important Duties and Sins: And it declareth the Nature of every sin and duty, far more clearly than Natural Light of it self can do.