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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.
THUS was it with David. After his great Sin, there is no doubt but he attended ⟨p. 83⟩unto all Ordinances of divine Worship, which are the ordinary means of the preservation and recovery of Sinners from their Backslidings. Howbeit they had not this effect upon him; he lived impenitently in his Sin, until God was pleased to use extraordinary means in the especial Message of Nathan, and the Death of his Child, for his awakening and recovery.
AND thus God will deal sometimes with Churches and Persons. Where ordinary means for their recovery will not effect it, he will by sovereign Grace, and it may be by a concurrence of Extraordinary Providence, heal, revive and save them. So he promiseth to do, Isa. lvij. 16, 17, 18, 19.
BUT where this is trusted unto, in the neglect of the ordinary means of healing, seeing there is no direct Promise of it, but it is a Case reserved unto absolute sovereignty, the End may be bitterness and sorrow.
BUT where this is trusted unto, in the neglect of the ordinary means of healing, seeing there is no direct Promise of it, but it is a Case reserved unto absolute soveraignty, the End may be bitterness and sorrow.