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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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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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The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
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Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.
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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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I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
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