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Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers
Of the mortification of sin in believers: the 1. Necessity, 2. Nature, and 3. Means of it. With a resolution of sundry cases of conscience thereunto belonging. By John Owen, D.D. a servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel.
London: printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1668
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.
Suppose a man to be a true Believer, and yet finds in himself a powerful Indwelling Sin, leading him captive to the Law of it, consuming his Heart with trouble, perplexing his Thoughts, weakening his Soul, as to Duties of Communion with God, disquieting him as to Peace, and perhaps de•iling his Conscience, and exposing him to Hardening through the ⟨p. 44⟩deceitfulness of Sin; what shall he do? what Course shall he take and insist on, for the Mortification of this Sin, Lust, Distemper, or Corruption, to such a Degree, as that though it be not utterly destroyed, yet in his Contest with it, he may be enabled to keep up Power, Strength and Peace, in Communion with God?
Suppose a man to be a true Believer, and yet finds in himself a powerfull Indwelling Sin, leading him captive to the Law of it, consuming his Heart with trouble, perplexing his Thoughts, weakening his Soul, as to Duties of Communion with God, disqui•ting him as to Peace, and perhaps de•iling his Conscience, and exposing him to Hardening through the ⟨p. 44⟩deceitfulness of Sin; what shall he doe? what Course shall he take and insist on, for the Mortification of this Sin, Lust, Distemper, or Corruption, to such a Degree, as that though it be not utterly destroyed, yet in his Contest with it, he may be enabled to keep up Power, Strength and Peace, in Communion with God?
In answer to this important Enquiry, I shall do these things.