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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.
WHEN Men grow in Age, they lose much of their Natural Appetite unto Food; they must eat still for the maintenance of Life, but they do it not with that desire after it, and that gust in it as in the days of Youth and Health. Hence they are apt to think, that the meat which they had formerly was more savoury than what is now provided for them; though what they now enjoy is much to be preferred before what they then had: the change is in themselves. So we may find not a few Professors, who are ready to think and say, that the preaching which they had in former days, and the Religious Exercises which they were engaged in, were far to be preferred above what they now enjoy. But the Change is in themselves, they have lost their Spiritual Appetite, or their hunger and thirst after the Food of their Souls.
WHEN Men grow in Age, they lose much of their Natural Appetite unto Food; they must eat still for the maintenance of Life, but they do it not with that desire after it, and that gust in it as in the days of Youth and Health. Hence they are apt to think, that the meat which they had formerly was more savoury than what is now provided for them; though what they now enjoy is much to be preferred before what they then had: the change is in themselves. So we may find not a few Professors, who are ready to think and say, that the preaching which they had in former days, and the Religious Exercises which they were ingaged in, were far to be preferred above what they now enjoy. But the Change is in themselves, they have lost their Spiritual Appetite, or their hunger and thirst after the Food of their Souls.
THE full Soul loatheth the Honey-comb; but to the hungry Soul every bitter thing is sweet, Prov. 27. 7. Men being grown full of themselves, and of a good conceit of their own Abilities, have ⟨p. 60⟩lost their Spiritual Appetite unto the Word of God; and this makes the Word lose it's Power and Efficacy towards them. That Word which the Psalmist says is sweeter than the honey, or honey-comb,