A53715:80
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.
3. He brings the cross of Christ into the Heart of a Sinner by Faith, and gives us Communion with Christ in his Death, and Fellowship in his sufferings; of the manner whereof more afterwards.
Q. If this be the work of the Spirit alone, how is it, that we are exhorted to it? Seeing the Spirit of God only can do it, let the work be left wholly to him.
Q. If this be the work of the Spirit alone, how is it, that we are exhorted to it? Seeing the Spirit of God only can doe it, let the work be left wholly to him.
A. 1. It is no otherwise the work of the Spirit, but as all Graces and good Works which are in us, are his: He works in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure, Phil. 2.13. He works all our works in us, Isa. 26.12. the work of Faith with power; 2 Thess. 1.11. Col. 2.12. He causes us to pray, and is a Spirit of Supplication, Rom. 8.26. Zach. 12.10. and yet we are exhorted, and are to be exhorted to all these.
A. 1. It is no otherwise the work of the Spirit, but as all Graces and good Works which are in us, are his: He works in us to will and to doe of his own good pleasure,