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To kill sin is the work of living men where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.

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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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...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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When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.
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We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
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This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not yet come, not far away, What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.
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If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.
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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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Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.
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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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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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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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If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled. When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.
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Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.
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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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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
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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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Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world therefore it is always to be mortified.
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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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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
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We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
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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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