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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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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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Christianity
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Equal
Power
Able
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Wills

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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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Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.
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It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.
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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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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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If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.
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Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
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The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.
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Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.
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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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It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
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If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.
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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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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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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.
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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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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.
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Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.
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It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.
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the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.
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