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A treatise of the dominion of sin and grace wherein sin's reign is discovered,…
A treatise of the dominion of sin and grace wherein sin's reign is discovered, in whom it is, and in whom it is not : how the law supports it, how grace delivers from it, by setting up its dominion the heart / by John Owen ...
London: printed by J. L. for William Marshall, 1688
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.
Secondly, Another Duty necessary unto this end, is continual Prayer, and this to be considered as unto its Application, to the prevalency of any particular Lust, ⟨p. 61⟩wherein Sin doth in a peculiar manner exert its Power. This is the great Ordinance of God for its Mortification. For,
1. HEREBY we obtain spiritual Aids and Supplies of strength against it. We are not more necessarily and fervently to pray that Sin may be pardoned, as to its guilt, than we are that it may be subdued, as to its power. He who is negligent in the latter, is never in good earnest in the former. The Pressures and Troubles which we receive from the Power of Sin, are as pungent on the Mind, as those from its Guilt are on the Conscience. Mere pardon of Sin will never give Peace unto a Soul, though it can have none without it. It must be mortified also, or we can have no spiritual Rest. Now this is the work of Prayer, namely, to seek and obtain such supplies of mortifying, sanctifying Grace, as whereby the Power of Sin may be broken, its Strength abated, its Root withered, its Life destroyed, and so the whole Old Man crucified. That which was the Apostles request for the Thessalonians, is the daily Prayer of all Believers for themselves, 1 Thes. v. 23.
1. HEREBY we obtain spiritual Aids and Supplies of strength against it. We are not more necessarily and fervently to pray that Sin may be pardoned, as to its guilt, than we are that it may be subdued, as to its power. He who is negligent in the latter, is never in good earnest in the former. The Pressures and Troubles which we receive from the Power of Sin, are as pungent on the Mind, as those from its Guilt are on the Conscience. Meer pardon of Sin will never give Peace unto a Soul, though it can have none without it. It must be mortified also, or we can have no spiritual Rest. Now this is the work of Prayer, namely, to seek and obtain such supplies of mortifying, sanctifying Grace, as whereby the Power of Sin may be broken, its Strength abated, its Root withered, its Life destroyed, and so the whole Old Man crucified. That which was the Apostles request for the Thessalonians, is the daily Prayer of all Believers for themselves,