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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.
THE things of the first sort which seem destructive of, and inconsistent with the Dominion of Sin, but indeed are not, may be referred to five Heads.
1. ILLUMINATION in Knowledge and spiritual Gifts, with Convictions of Good and Evil, of all known Duties and Sins. This is that which some Men live in a perpetual Rebellion against, in one instance or another.
1. ILLƲMINATION in Knowledge and spiritual Gifts, with Convictions of Good and Evil, of all known Duties and Sins. This is that which some Men live in a perpetual Rebellion against, in one instance or another.
2. A Change in the Affections, giving a temporary Delight in Religious Duties, with some constancy in their Observations. ⟨p. 35⟩This also is found in many who are yet evidently under the Power of Sin, and spiritual Darkness.
3. A Performance of many Duties both Moral and Evangelical, for the substance of them; and an Abstinence, out of Conscience, from many Sins. So was it with the Young Man in the Gospel, who yet wanted what was necessary to free him from the Dominion of Sin,