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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.
THAT which on this Occasion I principally intend, is the Grace and Privilege expressed ver. ⟨p. 30⟩14th. They shall still bring forth fruit in old Age, they shall be fat and flourishing. There be three things which constitute a Spiritual State, or belong to the Life of God. (1.) That Believers be fat, that is, by the Heavenly Juice, Sap, or Fatness of the true Olive, of Christ himself; as Rom. 11. 17. This is the principle of Spiritual Life and Grace derived from him. When this abounds in them so as to give them strength and vigour in the Exercise of Grace, to keep them from decays and withering, they are said to be fat, which in the Scripture Phrase is strong and healthy. (2.) That they flourish in the Greenness (as the word is) and Verdure of Profession; for vigorous Grace will produce a flourishing Profession. (3.) That they still bring forth Fruit in all Duties of Holy Obedience: All these are promised unto them even in Old Age.
THAT which on this Occasion I principally intend, is the Grace and Priviledge expressed ver. ⟨p. 30⟩14th. They shall still bring forth fruit in old Age, they shall be fat and flourishing. There be three things which constitute a Spiritual State, or belong to the Life of God. (1.) That Believers be fat, that is, by the Heavenly Juice, Sap, or Fatness of the true Olive, of Christ himself; as Rom. 11. 17. This is the principle of Spiritual Life and Grace derived from him. When this abounds in them so as to give them strength and vigour in the Exercise of Grace, to keep them from decays and withering, they are said to be fat, which in the Scripture Phrase is strong and healthy. (2.) That they flourish in the Greenness (as the word is) and Verdure of Profession; for vigorous Grace will produce a flourishing Profession. (3.) That they still bring forth Fruit in all Duties of Holy Obedience: All these are promised unto them even in Old Age.