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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 first way whereby Sin acts it self, or coins its Motions and Inclinations into Acts, is by the Imagination, Gen. vi. 5. The continual evil Figments of the Heart, are as the bubbling of corrupt Waters from a corrupted Fountain.
THE Imaginations intended are the fixing of the Mind on the Objects of Sin, or sinful Objects by continual Thoughts, with delight and complacency. They are the Minds purveying for the satisfaction of the Flesh in the Lusts thereof, Rom. xiij. 14. whereby Evil Thoughts come to lodge, to abide, to dwell in the Heart, Jer. iv. 14.
THIS is the first and proper Effect of that Vanity of Mind whereby the Soul is alienated from the Life of God. The Mind being turned off from its proper Object with a dislike of it, applies its self by its Thoughts and Imaginations unto the Pleasures and Advantages of Sin, seeking in vain to recover the Rest and Satisfaction which they have forsaken in God himself. They follow after lying Vanities, and forsake their own Mercies, Jonah ij. 8. And when they give themselves up unto a constant internal converse with the desires of ⟨p. 39⟩the Flesh, the Pleasures and Advantages of Sin, with delight and approbation; Sin may reign triumphantly in them, though no appearance be made of it in their outward Conversation. Such are they who have a Form of Godliness, but deny the Power thereof; their hearts being filled with a Litter of ungodly Lusts, as the Apostle declares, 2 Tim. iij. 5.
THIS is the first and proper Effect of that Vanity of Mind whereby the Soul is alienated from the Life of God. The Mind being turned off from its proper Object with a dislike of it, applies its self by its Thoughts and Imaginations unto the Pleasures and Advantages of Sin, seeking in vain to recover the Rest and Satisfaction which they have forsaken in God himself. They follow after lying Vanities, and forsake their own Mercies, Jonah ij. 8. And when they give themselves up unto a constant internal converse with the desires of