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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. 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, 2 Cor. 6. 15, 16, 17, 18.
3. AS unto what you pretend of your Pleasures, the Truth is, you never yet had any real Pleasure, nor do know what it is: How easy were it to declare the folly, vanity, bitterness, poison of those things which you have esteemed your pleasures. Here alone, namely, in Christ, and a participation of him, are true Pleasures, and durable Riches to be obtained; Pleasure of the same Nature with, and such as like pleasant Streams flow down into the Ocean of Eternal Pleasures above. A few moments in these Joys are to be preferred above the longest continuance in the cursed pleasures of this World. See Prov. 3. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
3. AS unto what you pretend of your Pleasures, the Truth is, you never yet had any real Pleasure, nor do know what it is: How easie were it to declare the folly, vanity, bitterness, poyson of those things which you have esteemed your pleasures. Here alone, namely, in Christ, and a participation of him, are true Pleasures, and durable Riches to be obtained; Pleasure of the same Nature with, and such as like pleasant Streams flow down into the Ocean of Eternal Pleasures above. A few moments in these Joys are to be preferred above the longest continuance in the cursed pleasures of this World. See