A53715:243
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. XI.
The Third Direction proposed. Load the Conscience with the Guilt of the perplexing Distemper. The Ways and Means whereby that may be done. The Fourth Direction. Vehement desire for Deliverance. The Fifth. Some Distempers rooted deeply in mens Natural Tempers. Considerations of such Distempers: Ways of dealing with them. The Sixth Direction. Occasions and Advantages of Sin to be prevented. The Seventh Direction. The first actings of Sin vigorously to be opposed.
The Third Direction proposed. Load the Conscience with the Guilt of the perplexing Distemper. The Wayes and Means whereby that may be done. The Fourth Direction. Vehement desire for Deliverance. The Fifth. Some Distempers rooted deeply in mens Natural Tempers. Considerations of such Distempers: Wayes of dealing with them. The Sixth Direction. Occasions and Advantages of Sin to be prevented. The Seventh Direction. The first actings of Sin vigorously to be opposed.
THIS is my Third Direction:
Load thy Conscience with the Guilt of it. Not only consider, that it hath a Guilt, but load thy Conscience with the Guilt of its actual Eruptions and Disturbances.