A53715:194
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 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:
First, Consider what dangerous symptoms thy Lust hath attending or accompanying it. Whether it hath any deadly Mark on it or no: If it hath, extraordinary Remedies are to ⟨p. 86⟩be used; an ordinary course of Mortification will not do it.
You will say, what are these dangerous Marks and symptoms, the desperate Attendances of an indwelling Lust that you intend? Some of them I shall name.