by John Owen – March 23rd, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God 2). The way whereby we should know God We know little of God, because it is faith alone by which we know Him here. I shall not now discourse about the remaining impressions on the hearts of all men by … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 22nd, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God d. Our unacquaintance with our end The apostle tells us in 1 John 3:2 that we know not what we ourselves shall be, what we shall find ourselves in the end. Much less will it enter into our hearts to conceive … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 21st, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God 1). Objection: Moses was under the Law You will say that Moses was under the Law when God veiled Himself in darkness and His mind(86) in types(87) and clouds and dark institutions. Under the glorious shining of the gospel— which has … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 19th, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God 8. Exercise Yourself to Meditate upon God The eighth preparatory direction for the mortification of sin is: Use and exercise yourself to such meditations as may serve to fill you at all times with self-abasement and thoughts of your own vileness. … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 19th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) 6. Watch against Sin’s Advantages The sixth direction for mortification is: Consider what occasions, what advantages, your distemper has taken to exert and put forth itself and watch against them all. This is one part of that duty which our … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 18th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) c. Bringing the body into subjection For the mortification of any distemper so rooted in the nature of a man, unto all other ways and means already named (or further to be insisted on), there is one expedient peculiarly suit-ed: … More by John Owen – March 18th, 2019
by John Owen – March 17th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) 4. Constantly Long for Deliverance My fourth direction for the mortification of sin is: Being thus affected with your sin, in the next place get a constant longing and breathing after deliverance from the power of it. Suffer not your … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 15th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) 3. Load Your Conscience with the Guilt of Sin (continued) A; 2). Guilt from gospel light Bring your lust to the gospel, not for relief, but for further conviction of its guilt. Look on Him Whom you have pierced and … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 15th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others 3. Load Your Conscience with the Guilt of Sin This is my third direction for the mortification of sin: Load your conscience with the guilt of it. Not only consider that it has guilt but load your conscience with the guilt of … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 14th, 2019 Chapter 10 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Clear Sense of Sin (Continued) c. Consider the evils of your sin Consider the evils of your sin. I mean its present evils. Danger concerns what is to come; evil concerns what is present. Some of the many evils that attend an unmortified lust … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
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