A53713:724
Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Of communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...Of communion with God the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...
Oxford: printed by A. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1657
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.
1. They Continually keep alive upon their hearts a sense of the guilt & evil of sin, even then when they are under some comfortable persuasions of their personal Acceptance with God. Sense of pardon takes away the horror and fear, but not a due sense of the guilt of sin. It is the daily exercise of the Saints of God, to consider the great provocation that is in sin, their sins; the sin of their nature and lives: to render themselves vile in their own hearts and thoughts on that account: to compare it with the terror at the Lord: and to judge themselves continually. This they do in General, my sin is ever before me, says David, They set sin before them not to terrify and affright their souls with it, but that a due sense of the evil of it, may be kept alive upon their hearts.
1. They Continually keep alive upon their hearts a sense of the guilt & evill of sin, even then when they are under some comfortable perswasions of their personall Acceptance with God. Sense of pardon takes away the horrour and feare, but not a due sense of the guilt of sinne. It is the daily exercise of the Saints of God, to consider the great provocation that is in sinne, their sinnes; the sin of their nature and lives: to render themselves vile in their own hearts and thoughts on that account: to compare it with the terrour at the Lord: and to judge themselves continually. This they doe in Generall, my sin is ever before me, says David, They set sinne before them not to terrify and offright their soules with it, but that a due sense of the evill of it, may be kept alive upon their hearts.
2. They gather up in their thoughts the sins for which they §. 49 ⟨p. 222⟩have not made a particular reckoning with God in Christ: or if they have begun so to do, yet they have not made clear work of it, nor come to a clear and comfortable issue. There is nothing more dreadful then for a man to be able to digest his convictions: to have sin look him in the face, and speak perhaps some words of terror to him, and to be able by any charms of diversions or delays, to put it off, without coming to a full trial as to state and condition in reference thereunto. This the Saints do. They gather up their sins, lay them in the balance of the Law; see and consider their weight and desert. And then