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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.
IT is true, that the latter Spring doth not bring forth the same Fruit with the former. There is no more required in it, but that the Ground evidence it self to be in good heart, and to put forth that which is proper unto the Season. It may be such Graces as were active and vigorous in Men at their first Conversion unto God, as were carried in a stream of warm natural Affections, may not so eminently abound in the latter Spring of old Age: But those which are proper for the Season, as namely, Spirituality, Heavenly Mindedness, weanedness from the World, readiness for the Cross, and Death, are necessary, even in old Age, to evidence that we have a living Principle of Grace, and to show thereby that God is upright, he is our Rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
IT is true, that the latter Spring doth not bring forth the same Fruit with the former. There is no more required in it, but that the Ground evidence it self to be in good heart, and to put forth that which is proper unto the Season. It may be such Graces as were active and vigorous in Men at their first Conversion unto God, as were carried in a stream of warm natural Affections, may not so eminently abound in the latter Spring of old Age: But those which are proper for the Season, as namely, Spirituality, Heavenly Mindedness, weanedness from the World, readiness for the Cross, and Death, are necessary, even in old Age, to evidence that we have a living Principle of Grace, and to shew thereby that God is upright, he is our Rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
WHAT is further to be insisted on, shall be reduced unto these four Heads.
1. THAT the constitution of Spiritual Life, is such as is meet to thrive, grow and increase unto the end, and will do so, unless it be from the default of them in whom it is.