A53715:328
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.
It may be said then, seeing that this seems to be the path that the Holy Spirit leads us in, for the healing of our wounds, and quieting ⟨p. 155⟩of our hearts, how shall we know when we go alone our selves, and when the Spirit also doth accompany us?
Ans. 1. If any of you are out of the way upon this account, God will speedily let you know it; for besides that you have his Promise, that the meek he will guide •n •udg•ment, and teach them his way, Psal. 25.9. he will not let you always err. He will (I say) not suffer your nakedness to be covered with Fig-leaves, but take them away, and all the peace you have in them, and will not suffer you to settle on such lees; you shall quickly know your wound is not healed. That is, you shall speedily know whether or no it be thus with you by the event; the peace you thus get and obtain, will not abide. Whilst the Mind is overpowered by its own Convictions, there is no hold for disquietments to fix upon. Stay a little and all th•se reasonings will grow cold, and vanish before the face of the first Temptation that arises. But,
Ans. 1. If any of you are out of the way upon this account, God will speedily let you know it; for b•side• that you have his Promise, that the meek he will guide •n •udg•ment, and teach them his way, Psal. 25.9. he will not let you alwayes erre. He will (I say) not suffer your nakedness to be covered with Fig-leaves, but take them away, and all the peace you have in them, and will not suffer you to settle on such lees; you shall quickly know your wound is not healed. That is, you shall speedily know whether or no it be thus with you by the event; the peace you thus get and obtain, will not abide. Whilest the Mind is overpowered by its own Convictions, there is no hold for disquietments to fix upon. Stay a little and all thse reasonings will grow cold, and vanish before the face of the first Temptation that arises. But,