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The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

John Owen

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John Owen
Age: 67 †
Born: 1616
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: August 24
Politician
Religious
Theologian
Stadhampton
Oxon
John Owen (1616-1683)
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There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.
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Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.
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To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.
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Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
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Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.
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We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we may live unto God in that holy obedience which he requires at our hands.
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Free will is corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds
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I did not hear what I should have listened to.
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Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.
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I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
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He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.
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Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.
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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
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No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
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Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.
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Do you mortify do you make it your daily work be always at it whilst you live cease not a day from this work be killing sin or it will be killing you.
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He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal what He wills He works.
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If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.
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If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
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Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the Son of God...Would you, then, see the true demerit of sin?-take the measure of it from the mediation of Christ, especially his cross.
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