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A53715	Of the mortification of sin in believers: the 1. Necessity, 2. Nature, and 3. Means of it. With a resolution of sundry cases of conscience thereunto belonging. By John Owen, D.D. a servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1668 (1668)	Wing O787; ESTC R214591	86,730	191

there is enough in Jesus Christ to yield thee relief Phil. 4.13 It staid the prodigal when he was ready to faint that yet there was bread enough in his father's house Though he was at a distance from it yet it releived him and staid him that there it was In thy greatest distress and anguish consider that fullness of Grace those Riches those Treasures of strength might and help that are laid up in him for our support Joh. 1.16 Col. 1.19 Let them come into and abide in thy mind Consider that he is exalted and made a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance unto Israel Act. 5.31 and if to give Repentance to give Mortification without which the other is not nor can be Christ tels us that we obtain purging Grace by abiding in him Joh. 15.3 To act faith upon the fulness that is in Christ for our supply is an eminent way of abiding in Christ for both our insition and aboade is by Faith Rom. 11.19 20. Let then thy soul by faith be exercised with such thoughts and apprehensions as these I am a poor weak Creature unstable as water I cannot excel This corruption is to hard for me and is at the very door of ruining my soul and what to do I know not My soul is become as parched ground and an habitation of Dragons I have made promises and broken them vowes and engagemens have been as a thing of nought many perswasions have I had that I had got the victory and should be delivered but I am deceived so that I plainly see that without some eminent succour and assistance I am lost and shall be prevailed on to an utter relinquishment of God but yet though this be my sta●e and Condition Yet let the hands that hang down be lifted up and the feeble knees be strengthned behold the Lord Christ that hath all fullness of Grace in his heart all fullness of power in his hand He is able to slay all these his enemies There is sufficient provision in him for my relief and assistance He can take my drooping dying soul and make me more than a Conquerer Why sayest thou O my soul my way is hid from the Lord and my Judgment is passed over from my God Hast thou not known hast thou not heard that the everlasting God the Lord the Creator of the ends the of the earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding he giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he encreaseth strength Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fail but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint Isa. 40.49 c. He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a poole and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water yea he can make this habitation of Dragons this heart so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place for Grass and fruit to himself Isa. 35. So God stayed Paul under his Temptation with the Consideration of the sufficiency of his Grace My Grace is sufficient for thee 2 Cor. 12.9 Though he were not immediately so farre made partaker of it as to be freed from his Temptation yet the sufficiency of it in God for that end and purpose was enough to stay his Spirit I say then by faith be much in the Consideration of that supply and the fullness of it that is in Jesus Christ and how he can at any time give thee strength and deliverance Now if hereby thou dost not find success to a conquest yet thou wilt be staid in the Charriot that thou shalt not fly out of the field until the battel be ended Thou wilt be kept from an utter despondency and a lying down under thy unbelief or a turning aside to false means and remedies that in the issue will not relieve thee The efficacy of this Consideration will be found only in the practice 2. Raise up thy heart by faith to an expectation of Relief from Christ Relief in this case from Christ is like the Prophets vision Hab. 2.3 It is for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and not lye though it tarry yet wait for it because it will surely come it will not tarry though it may seem somewhat long to thee whilest thou art under thy trouble and perplexity yet it shall surely come in the appointed time of the Lord Jesus which is the best season If then thou canst raise up thy heart to a settled Expectation of relief from Jesus Christ if thine eyes are towards him as the eyes of a servant to the hand of his master Psal. 123.2 when he expects to receive somewhat from him thy soul shall be satisfied Isa. 7.8 he will assuredly deliver thee He will slay the lust and thy latter end shall be peace only look for it at His hand expect when and how He will doe it If you will not believe surely ye shall not be established Q. But thou wilt say what ground have I to build such an Expectation upon so that I may expect not to be deceived A. As thou hast necessity to put thee on this course Joh. 6.68 thou must be relieved and saved this way or none to whom wilt thou goe so there are in the Lord Jesus innumerable things to encourage and engage thee to this Expectation For the necessity of it I have in part discovered it before when I manifested that this is the work of Faith and of Believers only Without me says Christ you can doe nothing Joh. 15.15 speaking with especial relation to the purging of the heart from sin vers 2. Mortification of any sin must be by a supply of Grace Of our selves we cannot doe it Now it hath pleased the Father that in Christ all fullness should dwell Col. 1.19 that of his fulness we might receive Grace for Grace Joh. 1.16 He is the head from whence the new man must have influences of life and strength or it will decay every day If we are strengthned with might in the inner man Col. 1.11 it is by Christs dwelling in our hearts by faith Eph. 3.16 17. That this work is not to be done without the Spirit I have also shewed before Whence then do we expect the Spirit from whom do we look for him Who hath promised him to us having procured him for us Ought not all our expectations to this purpose to be on Christ alone Let this then be fixed upon thy heart that if thou hast not relief from him thou shalt never have any All wayes endeavours contendings that are not animated by this expectation of releif from Christ and him only are to no purpose will do thee no Good yea if they are any thing but supportments of thy heart in this expectation or means appointed by