A53715:192
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.
CHAP. IX.
Particular Directions in relation to the foregoing Case proposed. First, Consider the dangerous Symptoms of any Lust: 1. Inveterateness. 2. Peace obtained under it; the several ways whereby that is done. 3. Frequency of success in its seductions. 4. The Soul's fighting against it, with Arguments only taken from the Event. 5. Its being attended with Judiciary Hardness. 6. Its withstanding particular dealings from God. The State of Persons in whom these things are found.
Particular Directions in relation to the foregoing Case proposed. First, Consider the dangerous Symptoms of any Lust: 1. Inveterateness. 2. Peace obtained under it; the several wayes whereby that is done. 3. Frequency of success in its seductions. 4. The Soul's fighting against it, with Arguments only taken from the Event. 5. Its being attended with Judiciary Hardness. 6. Its withstanding particular dealings from God. The State of Persons in whom these things are found.
THE foregoing General Rules being supposed, Particular Directions to the Soul, for its guidance under the sense of a disquieting lust or distemper, (being the main thing I aim at) come next to be proposed. Now of these some are previous and preparatory, and in some of them the work it self is contained. Of the first sort are these ensuing:
THE foregoing General Rules being supposed, Particular Directions to the Soul, for its guidance under the sense of a disquieting lust or distemper, (being the main thing I aym at) come next to be proposed. Now of these some are previous and preparatory, and in some of them the work it self is contained. Of the first sort are these ensuing: