A53715:184
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.
The Second general Rule proposed. Without universal Sincerity for the mortifying of every Lust, no Lust will be Mortified. Partial Mortification always from a corrupt Principle. Perplexity of Temptation from a Lust, oft-times a chastening for other Negligences.
The Second general Rule proposed. Without universal Sincerity for the mortifying of every Lust, no Lust will be Mortified. Partial Mortification alwayes from a corrupt Principle. Perplexity of Temptation from a Lust, oft-times a chastening for other Negligences.
THE Second Principle, which to this purpose I shall propose, is this, Without Sincerity and Diligence in an Universality of Obedience, there is no Mortification of any one perplexing Lust to be obtained. The other ⟨p. 79⟩was to the Person, this to the thing it self. I shall a little explain this Position.
THE Second Principle, which to this purpose I shall propose, is this, Without Sincerity and Diligence in an Ʋniversality of Obedience, there is no Mortification of any one perplexing Lust to be obtained. The other ⟨p. 79⟩was to the Person, this to the thing it self. I shall a little explain this Position.
A man finds any Lust to bring him into the Condition formerly described, it is powerful, strong, tumultuating, leads captive, vexes, disquiets, takes away peace; He is not able to bear it, wherefore he sets himself against it, prays against it, groans under it, sighs to be delivered, but in the mean time, perhaps in other Duties, in constant Communion with God, in Reading, Prayer and Meditation, in other ways that are not of the same kind with the Lust wherewith he is troubled, he is loose and negligent. Let not that man think that ever he shall arrive to the Mortification of the Lust he is perplexed withal. This is a Condition that not seldom befalls men in their Pilgrimage. The Israelites under a sense of their Sin, drew nigh to God with much diligence and earnestness, with Fasting and Prayer.