A53715:302
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.
But you will say, all this is true, but yet it is only so to them that know not God (perhaps) as he is revealed in Jesus Christ; with them who do so, 'tis otherwise. It is true, No man hath seen God at any time, but the only begotten Son, he hath revealed him, Joh. 1.17, 18. and, the Son of God is now come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true, 1 Joh. 5.20.
But you will say, all this is true, but yet it is onely so to them that know not God (perhaps) as he is revealed in Jesus Christ; with them who do so, 'tis otherwise. It is true, No man hath seen God at any time, but the onely begotten Son, he hath revealed him, Joh. 1.17, 18. and, the Son of God is now come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true, 1 Joh. 5.20.
The Illumination of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God shineth upon Believers, 2 Cor. 4.4. yea and God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, shines into their hearts, to give them the knowledge of his Glory in the face of his Son, v. 6. So that though we were darkness, yet we are now light in the Lord, Eph. 5.8. And the Apostle says, ⟨p. 140⟩We all with open face behold the Glory of the Lord, 2 Cor. 3.18. and we are now so far from being in such darkness, or at such a distance from God, that our communion and fellowship is with the Father and the Son,