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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.
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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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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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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On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.
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The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.
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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 purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.
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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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Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
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When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.
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A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
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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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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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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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Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.
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Now nothing can prevent this but mortification that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.
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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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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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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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