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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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2. IT is accompanied with an universal Spiritual Change in the whole Soul, 2 Cor. 5. 17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new: Wherefore if you would not choose rather to deceive and ruin your own Souls, come to the trial whether indeed you have received Christ in such a singular transforming act of Faith, do not on such pretences want a compliance with the word of Exhortation proposed unto you. But
2. IT is accompanied with an universal Spiritual Change in the whole Soul, 2 Cor. 5. 17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new: Wherefore if you would not chuse rather to deceive and ruine your own Souls, come to the tryal whether indeed you have received Christ in such a singular transforming act of Faith, do not on such pretences want a compliance with the word of Exhortation proposed unto you. But
II. SOME will say, they know not how to proceed in this Work. They can make nothing of it; they have tried to come to this believing, but do still fail in what they design; they go on ⟨p. 17⟩and off, but can make no progress, can come to no satisfaction; therefore they think it best to let things go in general as they are, without putting themselves to farther trouble as unto any especial Act of Faith in the receiving of Christ. This is the language of Mens Hearts, though not of their mouths, another shelter of Unbelief, and they act accordingly; they have a secret Despondency, which keeps them safe from attempting a real closure with Christ on the tender of the Gospel: Something may be offered unto this distempered frame of Mind.
II. SOME will say, they know not how to proceed in this Work. They can make nothing of it; they have tryed to come to this believing, but do still fail in what they design; they go on