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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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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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Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
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Assurance encourateth us in our combat it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.
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Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.
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That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.
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It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.
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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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Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
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In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles, overcomes all oppositions, and infallibly produces the intended effect.
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If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.
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Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.
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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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All that may be known of God for our salvation, especially his wisdom, love, goodness, grace and mercy on which the life of our souls depends, are represented to us in all their splendour in and through Christ. No wonder then that Christ is glorious in the eyes of believers!
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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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Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.
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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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...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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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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To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.
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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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Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.
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