A53715:307
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.
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, ⟨p. 142⟩but they know nothing as they ought: nothing in a right manner, nothing spiritually and savingly; nothing with an holy, heavenly light. The excellency of a Believer is not, that he hath a large Apprehension of things, but that what he doth apprehend (which perhaps may be very little) He sees it in the light of the Spirit of God, in a saving soul-transforming light: And this is that which gives us communion with God, and not prying Thoughts, or curious raised Notions.
3. The difference between Believers and Ʋnbelievers 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, ⟨p. 142⟩but they know nothing as they ought: nothing in a right manner, nothing spiritually and savingly; nothing with an holy, heavenly light. The excellency of a Believer is not, that he hath a large Apprehension of things, but that what he doth apprehend (which perhaps may be very little) He sees it in the light of the Spirit of God, in a saving soul-transforming light: And this is that which gives us communion with God, and not prying Thoughts, or curious raised Notions.
4. Jesus Christ by his Word and Spirit, reveals to the Hearts of all his, God as a Father, as a God in Covenant, as a Rewarder, every way sufficiently to teach us to obey him here, and to lead us to his Bosom, to lye down there in the Fruition of him to Eternity: But yet now,
4. Jesus Christ by his Word and Spirit, reveals to the Hearts of all his, God as a Father, as a God in Covenant, as a Rewarder, every way sufficiently to teach us to obey him here, and to lead us to his Bosome, to lye down there in the Fruition of him to Eternity: But yet now,