A53715:326
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.
suppose the wound and disquiet of the Soul to be upon the account of Relapses, which whatever the evil or Folly be, though ⟨p. 154⟩for the matter of it, never so small, yet there are no wounds deeper than those that are given the Soul on that account, nor disquietments greater. In the perturbation of his Mind, he finds out that Promise, Isa. 55.7. The Lord will have mercy, and our God will abundantly pardon; He will multiply or add to pardon; He will do it again and again; or that in Hos. 14.4. I will heal their back sliding, I will love them freely; This the man considers, and thereupon concludes Peace to himself; whether the Spirit of God make the Application or no, whether that gives life and power to the letter or no, that he regards not. He doth not hearken whether God the Lord speak peace. He doth not wait upon God, who perhaps yet hides his face, and sees the poor Creature stealing Peace and running away with it, knowing that the time will come when he will deal with him again, and call him to a new reckoning; Hos. 11.3. when he shall see that it is in vain to go one step where God doth not take him by the hand.
suppose the wound and disquiet of the Soul to be upon the account of Relapses, which whatever the evil or Folly be, though ⟨p. 154⟩for the matter of it, never so small, yet there are no wounds deeper than those that are given the Soul on that account, nor disquietments greater. In the perturbation of his Mind, he finds out that Promise, Isa. 55.7. The Lord will have mercy, and our God will abundantly pardon; He will multiply or adde to pardon; He will do it again and again; or that in Hos. 14.4. I will heal their back sliding, I will love them freely; This the man considers, and thereupon concludes Peace to himself; whether the Spirit of God make the Application or no, whether that gives life and power to the letter or no, that he regards not. He doth not hearken whether God the Lord speak peace. He doth not wait upon God, who perhaps yet hides his face, and sees the poor Creature stealing Peace and running away with it, knowing that the time will come when he will deal with him again, and call him to a new reckoning;