On temptation and the mortification of sin in believers
By: John Owen
Publisher: Presbyterian Board of Publication
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Sin; Temptation
Other titles: Presbyterian Board of Publication collection.
Table of contents: title: I. The foundation of the whole ensuing discourse laid in Rom. 7:13; title: the words of the apostle opened; title: the certain connection between true mortification and salvation; title: mortification the work of believers; title: the Spirit the principal efficient cause of it; title: what meant by the body in the words of the apostle; title: what by the deeds of the body; title: life, in what sense promised to this duty; title: II. The principal assertion concerning the necessity of mortification proposed to confirmation; title: mortification the duty of the best believers; title: indwelling sin always abides; no perfection in this life; title: the activity of abiding sin in believers; title: its fruitfulness and tendency; title: every lust aims at the height in its kind; title: the Spirit and new nature given to contend against indwelling sin; title: the fearful of the neglect of mortification; title: the first general principle of the whole discourse hence confirmed; title: want of this duty lamented.; title: XIII. When the heart id disquieted by sin, speak no peace to it until God speak it; title: peace, without detestation of sin, unsound; so is peace measured out unto ourselves; title: how we may know when we measure our peace unto ourselves; title: directions as to that inquiry; title: the vanity of speaking peace slightly; also of doing it on singular account, not universally; title: XIV. The general use of the foregoing directions; title: the great direction of the accomplishment of the work aimed at: act faith on Christ; title: the several ways whereby this may be done; title: consideration of the fullness in Christ for relief proposed; title: great expectations from Christ; title: grounds of these expectations; his mercifulness, his faithfulness; title: event of such expectations; on the part of Christ; on the part of believers; title: faith peculiar to be acted on the death of Christ; title: the work of the Spirit in this whole business.; title: X. Get a clear sense of; title: 1. the guilt of the sin perplexing; title: considerations for help therein proposed; title: 2. the danger manifold; title: a. hardening; title: b. temporal correction; title: c. loss of peace and strength; title: d. eternal destruction; title: rules for the management of this consideration; title: 3. the evil of it; title: a. in grieving the Spirit; title: b. wounding the new creature; title: c. taking away a man's usefulness; title: XI. Load by conscience with the guilt of the perplexing distemper; title: the ways and means whereby that may be done; title: vehement desire for deliverance; title: some distempers rooted deeply in men's natural tempers; title: considerations of such distempers; ways of dealing with them; title: occasions and advantages of sin to be prevented; title: the first actings of sin vigorously to be opposed; title: XII. Thoughtfulness of the excellency of the majesty of God; title: our unacquaintedness with him proposed and considered.; title: VIII. The second general rule proposed; title: without universal sincerity the mortifying of every lust, no lust will be mortified; title: partial mortification always from a corrupt principle; title: perplexity of temptation from a lust oftentimes a chastening for other negligences; title: IX. Particular directions in relation to the foregoing case proposed; title: consider the dangerous symptoms of any lust; title: 1. inveterateness; title: 2. peace obtained under it; the several ways whereby that is done; title: 3. frequency of success in its seductions; title: 4. the soul's fighting against it with arguments only taken from the event; title: 5. its being attended with judiciary hardness; title: 6. its withstanding particular dealings from God; title: the state of persons in whom these things are found.; title: v. The principal intendment of the whole discourse proposed; title: the first main case of conscience considered; title: not the utter destruction o fit in this life; title: not the dissimulation of it; title: not the improvement of any natural principle; title: not the diversion of it; title: not an occasional conquest; title: occasional conquests of sin, what and when; upon the eruption of sin; in time of danger or trouble; title: VI. The mortification of sin in particular described; title: the several parts and degrees thereof; title: the habitual weakening of its root and principle; title: the power of lust to tempt; title: differences of that power as to persons and times; title: constant fighting against sin; title: the parts thereof considered; title: success against it; title: the sum of this discourse considered; title: VII. General rules, without which no lust will be mortified; title: no mortification unless a man be a believer; title: dangers of attempting mortification of sin by unregenerate persons; title: the duty of unconverted persons as to this business of mortification considered; title: the vanity of the Papists' attempts and rules for mortification thence discovered.; title: III. The second general principle of the means of mortification proposed to confirmation; title: the Spirit the only author of this work; title: vanity of popish mortification discovered; title: many means of it used by them not appointed of God; title: these appointed by him abused; title: the mistakes of others in this business; title: the Spirit is promised believers for this work; title: all that we receive from Christ is by the Spirit; title: how the Spirit mortifies sin; title: the several ways of his operation to this end proposed; title: how his work and our duty; title: IV. The Last principle; of the usefulness of mortification; title: the vigor and comfort of our spiritual lives depend on our mortification; title: in what sense; title: not absolutely and necessarily; title: not as on the next and immediate cause; title: as a means; by removing of the contrary; title: the desperate effects of any unmortified lust; it weakens the soul, sundry ways, and darkens it; title: all graces improved by the mortification of sin; title: the best evidence of sincerity.