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The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

John Owen

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John Owen
Age: 67 †
Born: 1616
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: August 24
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Stadhampton
Oxon
John Owen (1616-1683)
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Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.
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Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.
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...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be punished with death in the sinner or his surety and therefore if God would bring many sons to glory, the Captain of their salvation must undergo sufferings and death, to make satisfaction for them.
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Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.
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Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.
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The gospel shall be victorious. This is the third thing that greatly comforts and refreshes me, — that if God should give me the honour, the strength, and grace to die in this cause, my cause shall be victorious, as sure as if I had the crown in my hand.
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If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.
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There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on and it will be so whilst we live in this world.
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There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.
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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.
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Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
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No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to his mind and will.
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Herein would I live herein would I die hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, unto the crucifying all things here below, until they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate embraces.
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I did not hear what I should have listened to.
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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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Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
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Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious
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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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There neither is, nor ever was, in the world, nor ever shall be, the least dram of holiness, but what, flowing from Jesus Christ, is communicated by the Spirit, according to the truth and promise of the gospel.
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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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