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Of Temptation
Of temptation the nature and power of it. The danger of entering into it. And the means of preventing the danger. With a resolution of sundry cases thereunto belonging, / by John Owen, D.D.Of temptation the nature and povver of it. The danger of entring into it. And the meanes of preventing the danger. With a resolution of sundry cases thereunto belonging, / by John Owen, D.D.
Oxford: printed by H. Hall for T. Robinson, 1658
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3. Obedience, personal Obedience, in the Universal observation of all the commands of Christ, is the keeping of his Word, Joh. 14. 15. Close adherence unto Christ, in Holiness, and universal Obedience, then when the opposition, that the Gospel of Christ doth meet withal in the world, doth render it signally the word of his patience, is the life and soul of the Duty required.
3. Obedience, personall Obedience, in the Universall observation of all the commands of Christ, is the keeping of his Word, Joh. 14. 15. Close adherence unto Christ, in Holinesse, and universall Obedience, then when the opposition, that the Gospell of Christ doth meet withall in the world, doth render it signally the word of his patience, is the life and soule of the Duty required.
Now all these are to be so managed, with that intention of mind and spirit, that care of heart, and diligence of the whole person, as to make up a keeping of this word; which evidently includes all those Considerations.
We are arrived then to the sum of this safeguarding Duty; of this Condition of freedom from the power of Temptation; He that having a due acquaintance with the Gospel, in ⟨p. 153⟩its Excellencies, as to him, a word of Mercy, Holiness, Liberty and Consolation, values it, in all its Concernments as his choicest and only Treasure; makes it his business, and the work of his life, to give himself up unto it in universal obedience, then especially, when Opposition, and Apostasy put the patience of Christ to the utmost, he shall be preserved from the hour of Temptation.