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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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IV. IT is the Language of the Hearts of some, that if they give up themselves unto a compliance with this Exhortation, and go seriously about this Duty, they must relinquish and renounce all their Lusts and pleasures, yea much of their Converse ⟨p. 22⟩and Society, wherein they find so much present satisfaction, as that they know not how to part with them. If they might retain their old ways, at least some of them, it were another matter, but this total Relinquishment of all is very severe.
Answ. I. THE Jesuits preaching and painting of Christ among some of the Indians, concealed from them his Cross and Sufferings, telling them only of his present Glory and Power; so as they pretended to win them over to Faith in him, hiding from them that whereby they might be discouraged; and so preached a false Christ unto them, one of their own framing. We dare do no such thing for all the World; we can here use no condescension, no compliance, no composition with respect unto any Sin or Lust, we have no Commission to grant that request of Lot, Is it not a little one? let it be spared; nor to come to Naamans terms, God be merciful to me in this thing, in all others I will be obedient. Wherefore,
Answ. I. THE Jesuites preaching and painting of Christ among some of the Indians, concealed from them his Cross and Sufferings, telling them only of his present Glory and Power; so as they pretended to win them over to Faith in him, hiding from them that whereby they might be discouraged; and so preached a false Christ unto them, one of their own framing. We dare do no such thing for all the World; we can here use no condescention, no compliance, no composition with respect unto any Sin or Lust, we have no Commission to grant that request of Lot, Is it not a little one? let it be spared; nor to come to Naamans terms, God be merciful to me in this thing, in all others I will be obedient. Wherefore,