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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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John Owen
Age: 67 †
Born: 1616
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: August 24
Politician
Religious
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Stadhampton
Oxon
John Owen (1616-1683)
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The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.
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Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.
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When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.
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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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To kill sin is the work of living men where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.
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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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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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No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
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I did not hear what I should have listened to.
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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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To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.
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The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.
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Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.
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There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.
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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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