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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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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,
2. WE must here be peremptory with you, whatever be the event, if you are discouraged by it, we cannot help it; Cursed be the Man that shall encourage you to come to Christ, with hopes of Indulgence unto any one Sin whatever. I speak not this, as though you could at once absolutely and perfectly leave all Sin in the root and branches of it; but only you are to do it in Heart and Resolution, engaging into an Universal Mortification of all Sin, as by Grace from above you shall be enabled: But your Choice must be absolute, without Reserves, as to Love, Interest and Design; God or the World, Christ or Belial, Holiness ⟨p. 23⟩or Sin, there is no Medium, no terms of composition,