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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. THAT I might show how great a thing it is to have our Spiritual Decays made up, our Backslidings healed, and so to attain the vigorous acting of Grace and Spiritual Life, with a flourishing Profession, and fruitful Obedience in Old Age: It is so set forth here by the Holy Ghost, as that every one must needs have a sense of the Beauty and Glory of the Work: It is that which Divine Love, Mercy and Grace are eminently effectual in unto the Glory of God, that which so many Duties are required to prepare us for. Let no Man think that it is a light or common work, every thing in it is peculiar: It is unto them who are made partakers of it, a Life from the Dead.
2. THAT I might shew how great a thing it is to have our Spiritual Decays made up, our Backslidings healed, and so to attain the vigorous acting of Grace and Spiritual Life, with a flourishing Profession, and fruitful Obedience in Old Age: It is so set forth here by the Holy Ghost, as that every one must needs have a sense of the Beauty and Glory of the Work: It is that which Divine Love, Mercy and Grace are eminently effectual in unto the Glory of God, that which so many Duties are required to prepare us for. Let no Man think that it is a light or common work, every thing in it is peculiar: It is unto them who are made partakers of it, a Life from the Dead.
3. THAT none may utterly despond under their Decays. When Persons are awakened by new Convictions, and begin to feel the weight of them, and how […] they are entangled with them, they […] ready to faint, and even to despair of Deliverance. But we see that here is a Promise of Deliverance from them ⟨p. 76⟩by pardoning Mercy, and also of such fresh Springs of Grace as shall cause us to abound in Holiness and Fruitfulness. Who is it that is entangled with Corruptions and Temptations, that groans under a sense of a cold lifeless barren frame of Heart? he may take in Spiritual Refreshment, if by Faith he can make Application of this Promise unto himself.
3. THAT none may utterly despond under their Decays. When Persons are awakened by new Convictions, and begin to feel the weight of them, and how they are intangled with them, they ready to faint, and even to despair of Deliverance. But we see that here is a Promise of Deliverance from them