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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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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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If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.
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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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A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
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The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
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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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It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.
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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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Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
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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.
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The seed of every sin is in every heart.
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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 men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
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A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.
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