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Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…
Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decays : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints under spiritual decayes : in two chapters, from John XVII, xxiv / by the late Reverend John Owen ...
London: printed by J.A. for William Marshall, 1691
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SOME will say, that this must be effected by fresh supplies and renewed communications of the Holy Spirit. Unless he fall as dew and showers on our dry and barren hearts, unless he causeth our Graces to spring, thrive and bring forth fruit, unless he revive and increase faith, love and holiness in our souls, our backslidings will not be healed, nor our spiritual state be recovered. Unto this end is he prayed for, and promised in the Scripture, see Cant 4. 1. 6. Isa. 44. 3, 4. Ezek. 11. 19. chap. 36. 26. Hos. 14. 5, 6. And so it is. The immediate efficiency of the revival of our souls, is from and by the Holy Spirit. But the enquiry is, in what way, or by what means, we may obtain the supplies and communications of him unto this end? This the Apostle declares in the place insisted on; We beholding the Glory of Christ in a Glass, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even by the spirit of the Lord. It is in the exercise of Faith on Christ in the way before described, that the Holy Spirit puts forth his renewing, transforming Power in and upon our souls. This therefore is that alone which will retrieve Christians from their present decays and deadness.
SOME will say, that this must be effected by fresh supplies and renewed communications of the Holy Spirit. Unless he fall as dew and showers on our dry and barren hearts, unless he causeth our Graces to spring, thrive and bring forth fruit, unless he revive and increase faith, love and holiness in our souls, our backs•idings will not be healed, nor our spiritual state be recovered. Unto this end is he prayed for, and promised in the Scripture, see Cant 4. 1. 6. Isa. 44. 3, 4. Ezek. 11. 19. chap. 36. 26. Hos. 14. 5, 6. And so it is. The immediate efficiency of the revival of our souls, is from and by the Holy Spirit. But the enquiry is, in what way, or by what means, we may obtain the supplies and communications of him unto this end? This the Apostle declares in the place insisted on; We beholding the Glory of Christ in a Glass, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even by the spirit of the Lord. It is in the exercise of Faith on Christ in the way before described, that the Holy Spirit puts forth his renewing, transforming Power in and upon our souls. This therefore is that alone which will retrive Christians from their present decays and deadness.