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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.
John Owen
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John Owen
Age: 67 †
Born: 1616
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: August 24
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John Owen (1616-1683)
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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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Free will is corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds
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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.
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If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.
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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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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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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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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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Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
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A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.
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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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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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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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I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
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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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The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.
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As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.
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The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.
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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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