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I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

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)
Wish
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Mend
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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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Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world therefore it is always to be mortified.
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Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.
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We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
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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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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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Pardon comes not to the soul alone or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes with a Spirit of life and power.
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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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It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
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Leanness of body and soul may go together.
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Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.
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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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To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.
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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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Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
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If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.
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Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.
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Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.
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There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.
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