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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.
2ly. GOD may justly require that of any, which it is in the Power of the Grace of the Gospel to enable them to perform and comply withal. For this is tendered unto them in the Preaching of it every day. And although we know not the ways and means of the effectual Communication of Grace unto the Souls of men; yet this is certain, that Grace is so tendered in the preaching of the Gospel, that none go without it, none are destitute of its aids and assistances, but those alone, who by a free act of their own Wills, do refuse and reject it. This is that which the whole Cause depends on; You will not come unto me, that you may have Life. And this all Unbelievers have or may have Experience of in themselves. They may know on a due Examination of themselves, that they ⟨p. 15⟩do voluntarily refuse the assistance of Grace, which is offered for their deliverance. Therefore is their destruction of themselves. But,
2ly. GOD may justly require that of any, which it is in the Power of the Grace of the Gospel to enable them to perform and comply withal. For this is tendred unto them in the Preaching of it every day. And although we know not the ways and means of the effectual Communication of Grace unto the Souls of men; yet this is certain, that Grace is so tendred in the preaching of the Gospel, that none go without it, none are destitute of its aids and assistances, but those alone, who by a free act of their own Wills, do refuse and reject it. This is that which the whole Cause depends on; You will not come unto me, that you may have Life. And this all Unbelievers have or may have Experience of in themselves. They may know on a due Examination of themselves, that they ⟨p. 15⟩do voluntarily refuse the assistance of Grace, which is offered for their deliverance. Therefore is their destruction of themselves. But,
3ly. THERE is a time, when Men lose even the Right also. He who gave up himself to have his Ear bored, lost all his claim unto future Liberty; he was not to go out at the year of Jubilee. So there is a Time when God judicially gives up Men to the Rule of Sin, to abide under it for ever; so as that they lose all Right unto Liberty. So he dealt with many of the Idolatrous Gentiles of old,