A53715:73
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.
2. We have all our Mortification from the Gift of Christ, and all the Gifts of Christ are communicated to us, and given us by the Spirit of Christ. Without Christ we can do nothing, Joh. 15.5. All communications of Supplies and Relief in the beginnings, increasings, actings of any Grace whatever from him, are by the Spirit, by whom he alone works in and upon Believers. From him we have our Mortification: ⟨p. 32⟩He is exalted and made a Prince and a Saviour, to give Repentance unto us: Act. 5.31. and of our Repentance our Mortification is no small Portion. How doth he do it? having received the Promise of the Holy Ghost, he sends him abroad for that end: Act. 2.33. You know the manifold Promises he made of sending the Spirit, as Tertullian speaks, vicariam navarre operam, to do the Works that he had to accomplish in us.
2. We have all our Mortification from the Gift of Christ, and all the Gifts of Christ are communicated to us, and given us by the Spirit of Christ. Without Christ we can do nothing, Joh. 15.5. All communications of Supplyes and Relief in the beginnings, increasings, actings of any Grace whatever from him, are by the Spirit, by whom he alone works in and upon Believers. From him we have our Mortification: ⟨p. 32⟩He is exalted and made a Prince and a Saviour, to give Repentance unto us: Act. 5.31. and of our Repentance our Mortification is no small Portion. How doth he doe it? having received the Promise of the Holy Ghost, he sends him abroad for that end: Act. 2.33. You know the manifold Promises he made of sending the Spirit, as Tertullian speaks, vicariam navare operam, to do the Works that he had to accomplish in us.