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• Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient being; the fountain and author of all being and good; the first cause, last end, and sovereign Lord of all; therefore, he is to be worshipped: therefore, are we to admire, adore, and love him; to praise, to trust and to fear him.

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  Wise, Powerful, Self

  John Owen (1841). “A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit: Wherein an Account is Given of His Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations and Effects. Also the Nature and Necessity of Gospel Holiness, and the Difference Between Grace and Morality”, p.39

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• Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

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  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  John Owen “Epistle to the Hebrews”, Kregel Publications

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• All things I thought I knew; but now confess
  The more I know, I know, I know the less.

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  Knowledge, All Things, Knows

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• We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

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  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  John Owen (1826). “The Works of John Owen”, p.187

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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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  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

  JOHN OWEN, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE GLORY OF CHRIST”, Lulu.com

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• We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.

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  Littles, Way, Speak

  "Temptation and 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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  Reading, Looks, Benefits

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• What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).

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  Writing, Soul, Holiness

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• The seed of every sin is in every heart.

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  Heart, Sin, Seeds

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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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  Punishment, Church, Purpose

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• Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

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  Life, Faith, Christian

  John Owen “Epistle to the Hebrews”, Kregel Publications

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• Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge.

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  Enemy, Christ, Worst

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• The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

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  Christian, Believe, Foundation

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• There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

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  Sin, Christ

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

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  Scripture, Ifs

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• The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

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  Firsts, Flocks, Duty

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.74

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• It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.

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  Soul, Christianity, Glorify

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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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  Bait, World, Rooms

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.102, David C Cook

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• Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

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  Men, Temptation, Draws

  John Owen (1825). “On the nature ... of indwelling sin in believers”, p.54

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• There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

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  Peace, Perfect, Obedience

  "The Works of John Owen".

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• If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

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  Prayer, Would Be, World

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.319

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• To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief.

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  Believe, Fall, Mean

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• He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.

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  Sorry, People, Church

  John Owen (1904). “The Golden Book of John Owen: Passages from the Writings of the Rev. John Owen, M.A., D.D., Sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church”

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• Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can do these things by our own efforts is to trample on the cross and grace of Jesus Christ. Whatever God works in us by his grace, he commands us to do as our duty. God works all in us and by us.

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  Jesus, Effort, Grace

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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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  Fall, Night, Men

  John Owen (1826). “The Works of John Owen”, p.71

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