Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved

These brief Discourses are included in the folio edition of Owen's Sermons, published in 1721, and are there, for obvious reasons, made to occupy a place by themselves. They were delivered at church meetings for the purposes of devotion and conference among Christian brethren (see p. 403); and they relate to a particular department of Christian ethics. Casuistry -- the science and doctrine of conscience -- is designed, as the name denotes, to resolve cases of doubt and uncertainty in regard...