▶️To adjust the playback speed of video: 1. Click on Settings 2. Click on Playback Speed 3. Click on Custom to adjust playback speed in smaller increments ▶️LINK TO FULL AUDIO BOOK: Cases of Conscience Resolved - Puritan John Owen / Audio Book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8YSfJz02g&list=PL8259C11DFFBFD174&index=5 Cases of Conscience Resolved is a series of discourses answering questions about sin, grace, faith, prayer, God's providence, and the preparation for Christ's second coming. Published in 1721, this series of short discourses was included amongst a collection of John Owen's sermons. This style of discourse falls under the category of study called casuistry, a system of resolving specific cases of morality by appealing to general principles. For centuries casuistry was considered a controversial area of study, and in the 15th and 16th centuries it was denounced as "the art of quibbling with God." Owen was admittedly aware of the dangers of casuistic thought. But he encourages his readers not to devalue the practice of asking questions about the duties we face as Christians. Indeed, though casuistry remains a questionable method of inquiry, the questions Owen raises are central to the Christian faith. Emmalon Davis CCEL Staff Writer For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. (Psa 32:3) Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer. ( Lamentations 3:8 8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer. ) Christ's Priesthood is Greater Far More Excellent than Theirs - Puritan John Owen / Audio Book John Owen (playlist): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8259C11DFFBFD174 ▶️SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/stack45ny ▶️After subscribing, click on NOTIFICATION BELL to be notified of new uploads. ▶️SUPPORT CHANNEL: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=RB72ANM8DJL2S&lc=US&item_name=stack45ny¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted My other sites: ▶️RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/c-278901 ▶️MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/christiansermonsandaudiobooks ▶️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richmoore63/ ▶️Battle for God and His Truth: http://battleforgodstruth.tumblr.com/ ▶️Battle for God's Truth: https://battleforgodstruth.blogspot.com/ ▶️My Wordpress Blog: https://sermonsandsongsdotorg.com/ John Owen was by common consent the weightiest Puritan theologian, and many would bracket him with Jonathan Edwards as one of the greatest Reformed theologians of all time. John Owen - (1616-1683), Congregational theologian 00:00 Discourse 1-3 Question. What conviction of a state of sin, and of the guilt of sin, is necessary to cause a soul sincerely to look after Christ? Question. Seeing the act of closing with Christ is secret and hidden, and the special times and seasons of our conversion unto God are unknown unto most, what are the most certain evidences and pledges that we have cordially and sincerely received Christ, and returned unto God? Question. What concern have we in the sins of the day wherein we live? 00:26:52 Discourse 4-6 Question. How may we recover from a decay of the principle of grace? Question. It was queried by some, how we may make our application unto Christ; not in general, but under what notion and apprehension of the person of Christ? Question. How may we make our addresses to Christ for the exercise of grace; that is, that we may have grace strengthened, and be ready for all exercise? or, How may we make application to Christ, that we may receive grace from him to recover from decays? 00:56:16 Discourse 7-9 Question. When our own faith is weakened as to the hearing of our prayers — when we ourselves are hindered within ourselves from believing the answer of our prayers, have no ground to expect we should be heard, or no ground to believe we are heard — what are those things that greatly weaken our faith as to the answer of our prayers; that though we continue to pray, yet our faith is weakened as to the hearing of our prayers? and what are the grounds that weaken men’s faith in such a state? Question. When may any one sin, lust, or corruption, be esteemed habitually prevalent? Question. Whether lust or corruption, habitually prevalent, be consistent with the truth of grace? 01:30:45 Discourse 10-12 Question. What shall a person do who finds himself under the power of a prevailing corruption, sin, or temptation? Question. What is our duty with respect to dark and difficult dispensations of God’s providence in the world? I did at two meetings inquire among ourselves what was required in the time of approaching judgments and calamities, that the world hath been, and is like to be, filled withal? 02:04:57 Discourse 13-14