The Works of John Owen Volume 11 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... 3. Even the expression, " He committeth not sin," denoteth not only the present actual frame and walking of him of whom it is spoken, hut his estate and condition. Being once born of God, he committeth not sin. No one that is so born of God doth. None in the state and condition of a regenerate person doth so; that is, in his course and walking to the end. And this is argued not so much distinctly to the permanency of the seed, as from the seed with such an adjunct . 4. Mr Goodwin's allusions to the soul and the obedience of angels are of little use, or none at all, to the illustration of the business in hand; for though the reason why the soul moveth the body to-day is not because it will move it to-morrow, yet the reason why the body moveth, and cannot but do so, is because it hath the soul abiding in it, and he that shall say, " He that liveth moveth, for he hath a soul abiding in him and cannot but move," shall speak properly enough. And the reason why the angels do the will of God in heaven, --that is, actually continue in so doing, --is, because they have such a confirmed and uncontrollable principle of obedience. So that all these exceptions amount not to the least weakening of the apostle's arguments. Sect. 32. Our author giveth two instances to prove that the word /itvu in the Scripture signifieth sometimes only " to be," and not " to abide," and they are, the one, John xiv. 17, and the other, 1 John iii. 14; and one argument to manifest that in the place under consideration it must needs signify a present abode and being, and not a continuance, etc. Ans. 1. If any such places be found, yet it is confessed that it is an unusual sense of the word, and a thousand places of that kind will not enforce it to be so taken in another...