A53715:306
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. Comparatively, that knowledge which we have of God by the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, is exceeding eminent and glorious. It is so in comparison of any knowledge of God that might otherwise be attained, or was delivered in the Law under the Old Testament, which had but the shadow of good things, not the express Image of them. This the Apostle pursues at large, 2 Cor. 3. Christ hath now in these last days revealed the Father from his own bosom, declared his Name, made known his Mind, Will and Counsel in a far more clear, eminent, distinct manner than he did formerly, whilst he kept his People under the pedagogy of the Law: And this is that which for the most part is intended in the places before mentioned; the clear, perspicuous delivery and declaration of God, and his Will in the Gospel is expressly exalted in comparison of any other way of Revelation of himself.
2. Comparatively, that knowledge which we have of God by the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the Gospel, is exceeding eminent and glorious. It is so in comparison of any knowledge of God that might otherwise be attained, or was delivered in the Law under the Old Testament, which had but the shadow of good things, not the express Image of them. This the Apostle pursues at large, 2 Cor. 3. Christ hath now in these last dayes revealed the Father from his own bosome, declared his Name, made known his Mind, Will and Councel in a far more clear, eminent, distinct manner than he did formerly, whilest he kept his People under the poedagogy of the Law: And this is that which for the most part is intended in the places before mentioned; the clear, perspicuous delivery and declaration of God, and his Will in the Gospel is expresly exalted in comparison of any other way of Revelation of himself.
3. The difference between Believers and Unbelievers as to Knowledge, is not so much in the Matter of their Knowledge, as in the Manner of knowing. Unbelievers some of them may know more, and be able to say more of God, his Perfections and his will, than many Believers,