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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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2. IF you have not this Experience, it is to be feared that you are asleep in Security, which is hardly distinguishable from Death in Sin. The Church of Laodicea was sensibly decayed, and gone off from it's Primitive Faith and Obedience, yet she was so secure in her Condition, knew so little of it, that she judged her self on the contrary to be in a thriving flourishing State. She thought her self increased in all Church Riches and Goods, that is, Gifts and Grace, while she was wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, Revel. 3. 17. in such a State as wherein ⟨p. 52⟩it is questionable, whether she had any thing of the Life and Power of Grace to be found in her or no. And so is it with many Churches at this day, especially that which boasts it self to be without Error, or Blame: And it is strange that a Church should suppose that it flourisheth in Grace and Gifts, when it hath nothing but a noise of words in their stead.
2. IF you have not this Experience, it is to be feared that you are asleep in Security, which is hardly distinguishable from Death in Sin. The Church of Laodicea was sensibly decayed, and gone off from it's Primitive Faith and Obedience, yet she was so secure in her Condition, knew so little of it, that she judged her self on the contrary to be in a thriving flourishing State. She thought her self encreased in all Church Riches and Goods, that is, Gifts and Grace, while she was wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked, Revel. 3. 17. in such a State as wherein ⟨p. 52⟩it is questionable, whether she had any thing of the Life and Power of Grace to be found in her or no. And so is it with many Churches at this day, especially that which boasts it self to be without Error, or Blame: And it is strange that a Church should suppose that it flourisheth in Grace and Gifts, when it hath nothing but a noise of words in their stead.