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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. TO improve this Conviction, I would ask of some, whether they have been able to maintain Spiritual Peace and Joy in their Souls. I take it for granted, that ordinarily they are inseparable Adjuncts of the Life of Faith, in an humble fruitful Walk before God. The Scripture testifieth that they are so, and no Experience lies against it in ordinary Cases. And I suppose that those unto whom I speak, do in some measure know what they are, and do not delude themselves with Fancies and Imaginations; they have substance in them however by some derided, and to some unknown. Have this Peace and Joy been maintained and born sway in your Minds? Have they under all Trials and Surprisals been quickly composed by them? Or are you not rather on all Occasions uneasy and perplexed? This is certain, that a decaying Spiritual State, and solid Spiritual Peace, are inconsistent: And if ever you had such Peace, you may by the loss of it, know into what state you are come.
2. TO improve this Conviction, I would ask of some, whether they have been able to maintain Spiritual Peace and Joy in their Souls. I take it for granted, that ordinarily they are inseparable Adjuncts of the Life of Faith, in an humble fruitful Walk before God. The Scripture testifieth that they are so, and no Experience lyes against it in ordinary Cases. And I suppose that those unto whom I speak, do in some measure know what they are, and do not delude themselves with Fancies and Imaginations; they have substance in them however by some derided, and to some unknown. Have this Peace and Joy been maintained and born sway in your Minds? Have they under all Tryals and Surprizals been quickly composed by them? Or are you not rather on all Occasions uneasie and perplexed? This is certain, that a decaying Spiritual State, and solid Spiritual Peace, are inconsistent: And if ever you had such Peace, you may by the loss of it, know into what state you are come.
3. NOT to enquire further into things internal and hidden, wherein Men may justify themselves if they please, there are too many open visible Evidences of these Decays among Professors of Religion; they have not kept them from ⟨p. 54⟩