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Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

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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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It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.
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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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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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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction
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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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Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.
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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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It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.
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Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious
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Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.
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Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.
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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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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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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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Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after...unless you long for deliverance you shall not have it.
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There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.
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There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.
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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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We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.
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See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
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