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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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NOW that Believers are subject to Decays in both the ways mentioned, we have full Testimony in Scripture: For as unto that general gradual Decay in the loss of our first Faith, Love, and Works, in the weakening of the internal Principle of Spiritual Life, with the loss thereon of Delight, Joy and Consolation, and the Abatement of the Fruits of Obedience, our Lord Jesus ⟨p. 45⟩Christ doth expressly charge it on five of the seven Churches of Asia, Rev. 2d. 3d. And in some of them, as Sardis and Laodicea, those Decays had proceeded unto such a degree, as that they were in danger of utter Rejection: And hereunto answers the experience of all Churches, and all Believers in the World. Those who are otherwise minded, are dead in Sin, and have got pretences to countenance themselves in their miserable Condition. So is it with the Church of Rome; and I wish others did not in some measure follow them therein.
NOW that Believers are subject to Decays in both the ways mentioned, we have full Testimony in Scripture: For as unto that general gradual Decay in the loss of our first Faith, Love, and Works, in the weakening of the internal Principle of Spiritual Life, with the loss thereon of Delight, Joy and Consolation, and the Abatement of the Fruits of Obedience, our Lord Jesus ⟨p. 45⟩Christ doth expresly charge it on five of the seven Churches of Asia, Rev. 2d. 3d. And in some of them, as Sardis and Laodicea, those Decays had proceeded unto such a degree, as that they were in danger of utter Rejection: And hereunto answers the experience of all Churches, and all Believers in the World. Those who are otherwise minded, are dead in Sin, and have got pretences to countenance themselves in their miserable Condition. So is it with the Church of Rome; and I wish others did not in some measure follow them therein.