A53715:230
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.
2. The danger of some great temporal Correction, which the Scripture calls Vengeance, Judgement, and Punishment, Psal. 89.30, 31, 32, 33, Though God should not utterly cast ⟨p. 106⟩thee off for this Abomination that lies in thy Heart, yet he will visit with the Rod; though he pardon and forgive, he will take vengeance of thy Inventions. O remember David and all his troubles; look on him flying into the Wilderness, and consider the hand of God upon him. Is it nothing to thee, that God should kill thy Child in anger, ruin thy Estate in anger, break thy Bones in anger, suffer thee to be a Scandal and Reproach in anger, kill thee, destroy thee, make thee lye down in darkness in anger? Is it nothing that he should punish, ruin, and undo others for thy sake? Let me not be mistaken, I do not mean, that God doth send all these things always on his in Anger; God forbid. But this I say, That when he doth so deal with thee, and thy Conscience bears witness with him, what thy Provocations have been, thou wilt find his dealings full of bitterness to thy Soul. If thou fearest not these things, I fear thou art under hardness.
2. The danger of some great temporal Correction, which the Scripture calls Vengeance, Judgement, and Punishment, Psal. 89.30, 31, 32, 33, Though God should not utterly cast ⟨p. 106⟩thee off for this Abomination that lyes in thy Heart, yet he will visit with the Rod; though he pardon and forgive, he will take vengeance of thy Inventions. O remember David and all his troubles; look on him flying into the Wilderness, and consider the hand of God upon him. Is it nothing to thee, that God should kill thy Child in anger, ruine thy Estate in anger, break thy Bones in anger, suffer thee to be a Scandal and Reproach in anger, kill thee, destroy thee, make thee lye down in darkness in anger? Is it nothing that he should punish, ruine, and undoe others for thy sake? Let me not be mistaken, I do not mean, that God doth send all these things alwayes on his in Anger; God forbid. But this I say, That when he doth so deal with thee, and thy Conscience bears witness with him, what thy Provocations have been, thou wilt find his dealings full of bitterness to thy Soul. If thou fearest not these things, I fear thou art under hardness.