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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.
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.
AND the Psalmist in the next words declares the greatness of this Privilege: To shem that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no unrighteousness in him. Consider the oppositions that lye against the flourishing of Believers in Old Age, the Difficulties of it, the Temptations that must be conquered, the Actings of the Mind above it's natural Abilities which are decayed, the weariness that is apt to befall us in a long Spiritual conflict, the cries of the Flesh to be spared, and we shall see it to be an Evidence of the Faithfulness, Power and Righteousness of God in Covenant; nothing else could produce this mighty effect. So the Prophet treating of the same Promise, Hos. 14. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. closeth his Discourse with that blessed Remark, Ver. 9. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them. Spiritual Wisdom will make us to see that the Faithfulness and Power of God are exerted in this work of preserving Believers flourishing and fruitful unto the End.
AND the Psalmist in the next words declares the greatness of this Priviledge: To shem that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no unrighteousness in him. Consider the oppositions that lye against the flourishing of Believers in Old Age, the Difficulties of it, the Temptations that must be conquered, the Actings of the Mind above it's natural Abilities which are decayed, the weariness that is apt to befall us in a long Spiritual conflict, the cries of the Flesh to be spared, and we shall see it to be an Evidence of the Faithfulness, Power and Righteousness of God in Covenant; nothing else could produce this mighty effect. So the Prophet treating of the same Promise,