THE WORKS OF JOHN OWEN, D.D. 3066 EDITED BY THOMAS RUSSELL, M.A. WITH MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS, BY WILLIAM ORME. VOL. XI. CONTAINING THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH; AND GOSPEL GROUNDS LONDON: PRINTED FOR RICHARD BAYNES, 28, PATERNOSTER ROW: OF THE ELEVENTH VOLUME. SECT. I. The general nature of justification. State of the person to be justified antece- ... SECT. II. are to trust A due consideration of God, the Judge of all, necessary unto the right stating and apprehension of the doctrine of justification; Rom. viii. 33. Isa. xliii. 25. xlv. 23. Psal. cxlv. 2. Rom. iii. 20. What thoughts will be ingenerated hereby in the minds of men. Isa. xxxiii. 14. Micah vi. 7. Isa. vi. 5. The plea of Job against his friends, and before God not the same. Job xl. 3-5. xlii. 4-6. Directions for visiting the sick given of old. Testimonies of Je- rome and Ambrose. Sense of men in their prayers. Dan. ix. 7. 18. Psal. cxliii. 2. cxxx. 3, 4. Paraphrase of Austin on that place. Prayer of Pe- Page 11 A due sense of our apostacy from God, the depravation of our nature thereby, with the power and guilt of sin, the holiness of the law, necessary unto a right understanding of the doctrine of justification. Method of the apostle to this purpose, Rom. i-iv. Grounds of the ancient and present Pelagianism, in the denial of these things. Instances thereof. Boasting of perfection from the same ground. Knowledge of sin and grace mutually promote each other. 26 Opposition between works and grace, as unto justification. Method of the apo- stle in the Epistle to the Romans to manifest this opposition. A scheme of others, contrary thereunto. Testimonies witnessing this opposition. Judg- ment to be made on them. Distinctions whereby they are evaded. The uselessness of them. Resolution of the case in hand by Bellarmine. Luke A commutation as unto sin and righteousness, by imputation between Christ |