A53715:332
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.
4. Which is worst of all, it amends not the life, it heals not the evil, it cures not the distemper: When God speaks Peace, it guides and keeps the Soul that it turn not again to Folly, Psa•. 85.8. When we speak it our selves, the Heart is not taken off the Evil. Nay it is the readyest course in the world to bring a Soul into a trade of Backsliding. If upon thy plastering thy self, thou findest thy self rather animated to the battle again, than utterly weaned from it, it is too palpable that thou hast been at work with thy own Soul, but Jesus Christ and his Spirit were not there. Yea and often-times Nature having done its work, will ere a few days are over come for its Reward; and having been active in the work of Healing, will be ready to reason for a new wounding. In Gods speaking peace there comes along so much sweetness and such a Discovery of his Love, 1as is a strong Obligation on the Soul no more to deal perversely.
4. Which is worst of all, it amends not the life, it heals not the evil, it cures not the distemper: When God speaks Peace, it guides and keeps the Soul that it turn not again to Folly, Psa•. 85.8. When we speak it our selves, the Heart is not taken off the Evil. Nay it is the readyest course in the world to bring a Soul into a trade of Backsliding. If upon thy plaistering thy self, thou findest thy self rather animated to the battel again, than utterly weaned from it, it is too palpable that thou hast been at work with thy own Soul, but Jesus Christ and his Spirit were not there. Yea and often-times Nature having done its work, will ere a few dayes are over come for its Reward; and having been active in the work of Healing, will be ready to reason for a new wounding. In Gods speaking peace there comes along so much sweetness and such a Discovery of his Love, 1as is a strong Obligation on the Soul no more to deal perversly.