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This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not yet come, not far away, What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.
John Owen
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John Owen
Age: 67 †
Born: 1616
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: August 24
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Stadhampton
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John Owen (1616-1683)
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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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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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If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
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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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Free will is corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds
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And as men diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the world than they can well manage, they shall have more to do from Satan than they can withstand.
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