Elias_Amare
Puritan Board Freshman
John Owen, The Causes, Ways, and Means of Understanding the Mind of God, Vol III, p.475
I shall, therefore, fix this assertion as a sacred truth: Whoever in the diligent and immediate study of the Scripture to know the mind of God therein so as to do it, doth abide in fervent supplications in and by Jesus Christ for supplies of the Spirit of grace, to lead him into all truth, to reveal and make known unto him the truth as it is in Jesus, to give him an understanding of the Scriptures, and the will of God therein, he shall be preserved from pernicious errors, and attain that degree in knowledge, as shall be sufficient unto the guidance and preservation of the life of God, in the whole of his faith and obedience.
I shall, therefore, fix this assertion as a sacred truth: Whoever in the diligent and immediate study of the Scripture to know the mind of God therein so as to do it, doth abide in fervent supplications in and by Jesus Christ for supplies of the Spirit of grace, to lead him into all truth, to reveal and make known unto him the truth as it is in Jesus, to give him an understanding of the Scriptures, and the will of God therein, he shall be preserved from pernicious errors, and attain that degree in knowledge, as shall be sufficient unto the guidance and preservation of the life of God, in the whole of his faith and obedience.
