A53715:169
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.
(1.) When his Conscience hath been made sick with Sin, and he could find no rest, when he should go to the great Physician of Souls, and get healing in his Blood; the Man by this Engagement against Sin, pacifies and quiets his Conscience, and sits down without going to Christ at all. Ah! how many poor Souls are thus deluded to Eternity! When Ephraim saw his sickness, he sent to King Jareb, Hos. 5.13. which kept him off from God. The whole bundle of the Popish Religion is made up of Designs and contrivances to pacify Conscience without Christ; all described by the Apostle, Rom. 10.4.
(1.) When his Conscience hath been made sick with Sin, and he could find no rest, when he should go to the great Physitian of Souls, and get healing in his Blood; the Man by this Engagement against Sin, pacifies and quiets his Conscience, and sits down without going to Christ at all. Ah! how many poor Souls are thus deluded to Eternity! When Ephraim saw his sickness, he sent to King Jareb, Hos. 5.13. which kept him off from God. The whole bundle of the Popish Religion is made up of Designs and contrivances to pacifie Conscience without Christ; all described by the Apostle, Rom. 10.4.
(2.) By this means men satisfy themselves that their State and Condition is good, seeing they do that which is a work good in it self, and they do not do it to be seen. They know they would have the work done in sincerity, and so are hardened in a kind of self Righteousness.
(2.) By this means men satisfie themselves that their State and Condition is good, seeing they do that which is a work good in it self, and they do not do it to be seen. They know they would have the work done in sincerity, and so are hardened in a kind of self Righteousness.