In this chapter, Owen’s particular direction is to meditate on your own sinfulness. Owen deals with some objections concerning the limit of our understanding of God, but i have not noted them here since it seems to be a slight detour of our immediate concern of mortification of sin.
Owen suggests some things to meditate on:
The righteousness of God and our own vileness in comparison. Scripture is full of this self-abasement, in Job 42:5-6 and Isaiah 40:12-25.
Our lack of knowledge of God. This will lower our pride as we think about how little we know about God and his nature. None of our expressions of God’s glory can match his perfection.
We know so little about God because God has willed it so and because it is only by faith that we know Him while here in this life. We know enough of God to love him and put our trust in Him.
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