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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.
EVEN Trees when they grow old (the Palm and the Cedar) are apt to lose of their Juice and Verdure: and men in Old Age are subject unto all sorts of Decays both outward and inward. It is a rare thing to see a Man in Old Age naturally vigorous, healthy and strong; and would it were not more rare to see any Spiritually so at the same Season: But this is here promised unto Believers as an especial Grace and Privilege, beyond what can be represented in the growth or fruit-bearing of Plants and Trees.
EVEN Trees when they grow old (the Palm and the Cedar) are apt to lose of their Juice and Verdure: and men in Old Age are subject unto all sorts of Decays both outward and inward. It is a rare thing to see a Man in Old Age naturally vigorous, healthy and strong; and would it were not more rare to see any Spiritually so at the same Season: But this is here promised unto Believers as an especial Grace and Priviledge, beyond what can be represented in the growth or fruit-bearing of Plants and Trees.
THE Grace intended, is, That when Believers are under all sorts of bodily and Natural Decays, and it may be have been overtaken with Spiritual Decays also, there is provision made in ⟨p. 31⟩the Covenant, to render them fat, flourishing and fruitful, vigorous in the power of Internal Grace, and flourishing in the expression of it in all Duties of Obedience, which is that which we now enquire after.
BLESSED be God for this good Word of his Grace, that he hath given us such encouragement against all the Decays and Temptations of Old Age which we have to conflict withal.
BLESSED be God for this good Word of his Grace, that he hath given us such encouragement against all the Decays and Temptations of Old Age which we have to conflict withall.