A53700:91
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 the Will of God, even your Sanctification, 1 Thessal. 4. 3. That Holiness, without which none shall see God, Heb. 12. 14. That good and acceptable and perfect Will of God which we are to approve, Rom. 12. 2.
OUR next Enquiry is, what is that Approbation of this way of Holiness which we place as an Evidence of saving Faith? And I say, it is such as ariseth from Experience, and is accompanied with Choice, Delight, and Acquiescence: It is the Acting of the Soul in a delightful Adherence unto the whole Will of God: It is a resolved Judgment of the Beauty and Excellency of that Holiness and Obedience which the Gospel reveals and requires, and that on the Grounds which shall be immediately declared, and the Nature thereof therein more fully opened.
OUR next Enquiry is, what is that Approbation of this way of Holiness which we place as an Evidence of saving Faith? And I say, it is such as ariseth from Experience, and is accompanied with Choice, Delight, and Acquiescency: It is the Acting of the Soul in a delightful Adherence unto the whole Will of God: It is a resolved Judgment of the Beauty and Excellency of that Holiness and Obedience which the Gospel reveals and requires, and that on the Grounds which shall be immediately declared, and the Nature thereof therein more fully opened.
THIS Approbation cannot be in any unregenerate Person, who is not under the Conduct of saving Faith, who is destitute of the Light of it: So the Apostle assures us, Rom. 8. 7