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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 Queen of Sheba had heard much of Solomon, and framed many great thoughts of his Magnificence in •er Mind thereupon; but when she came and saw his Glory, she was forced to confess, that the one half of the truth had not been told her. We may suppose that we have here attained great knowledge, clear and high thoughts of God; but alas! when he shall bring us into his presence, we shall cry out, we never knew him as he is: The thousandth part of his Glory and Perfection and Blessedness, never entered into our hearts.
The Queen of Sheba had heard much of Solomon, and framed many great thoughts of his Magnificence in •er Mind thereupon; but when she came and saw his Glory, she was forced to confess, that the one half of the truth had not been told her. We may suppose that we have here attained great knowledge, clear and high thoughts of God; but alas! when he shall bring us into his presence, we shall cry out, we never knew him as he is: The thousandth part of his Glory and Perfection and Blessedness, never entred into our hearts.
••Te Apostle tells us; 1 Joh. 3.2. That we know not what we our selves shall be; what we shall find our selves in the Issue; much less will it enter into our Hearts to conceive, what God is, and what we shall find him to be. Consider either him who is to be known, or the Way whereby we know him, and this will farther appear.
First, We know so little of God, because it is God who is thus to be known; that is, he who hath described himself to us very much ⟨p. 135⟩