A53715:366
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.
He tells us whence it is that we have this Baptism into the Death of Christ, vers. 6. and this is from the Death of Christ it self: Our old Man is crucified with him, that the Body of Sin might be destroyed: [Greek or Hebrew], is crucified with him; not in respect of Time, but of Causality; we are crucified with him, meritoriously in that he procured the Spirit for us, to mortify Sin; efficiently, in that from his Death virtue comes forth for our crucifying; in the way of a Representation and Exemplar, we shall assuredly be crucified unto Sin, as he was for our Sin. This is that the Apostle intends. Christ by his Death destroying the works of the Devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed Sin as to its Reign in Believers, that it shall not obtain its End and Dominion.
He tells us whence it is that we have this Baptisme into the Death of Christ, vers. 6. and this is from the Death of Christ it self: Our old Man is crucified with him, that the Body of Sin might be destroyed: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is crucified with him; not in respect of Time, but of Causality; we are crucified with him, meritoriously in that he procured the Spirit for us, to mortifie Sin; efficiently, in that from his Death virtue comes forth for our crucifying; in the way of a Representation and Exemplar, we shall assuredly be crucified unto Sin, as he was for our Sin. This is that the Apostle intends. Christ by his Death destroying the works of the Devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed Sin as to its Reign in Believers, that it shall not obtain its End and Dominion.
(2) Then act Faith on the Death of Christ, and that under these two Notions:1