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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
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.
I. SOME do say on such Exhortations: What is it that you would have us to do? We hear the Word preached, we believe it as well as we can, we do many things willingly, and abstain from many evils diligently, what is more required of us? This is the Language of the Hearts of the most with whom in this Case we have to do: And I say,
1. IT is usual with them who do something in the ways of God, but not all they should, and so nothing in a due manner, to expostulate about requiring of them more than they do. So the People dispute with God himself, Mal. 1. 6. Chap. 3. 8, 13. So they in the Gospel who esteemed themselves to have done their Duty, being pressed unto Faith by Christ Jesus, ask him with some Indignation, What shall we do, that we might work the work of God? John 6. 28. If what we do be not enough, what is it that you require more of us? So was it with the Young Man, Mat. 19. 20. What do I lack yet? Be advised therefore not to be too confident of your State, left you should yet lack that one thing, the want whereof might prove your Eternal Ruin.
1. IT is usual with them who do something in the ways of God, but not all they should, and so nothing in a due manner, to expostulate about requiring of them more than they do. So the People dispute with God himself, Mal. 1. 6. Chap. 3. 8, 13. So they in the Gospel who esteemed themselves to have done their Duty, being pressed unto Faith by Christ Jesus, ask him with some Indignation, What shall we do, that we might work the work of God? John 6. 28. If what we do be not enough, what is it that you require more of us? So was it with the Young Man, Mat. 19. 20. What do I lack yet? Be advised therefore not to be too confident of your State, left you should yet lack that one thing, the want whereof might prove your Eternal Ruine.