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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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  Self, Views, Imagination

  John Owen (1815). “Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ: In Two Parts. I. In His Person, Office, and Grace; with the Differences Between Faith and Sight: Applied Unto the Use of Them that Believe. II. The Application of the Same Meditations Unto Unconverted Sinners, and Saints Under Spiritual Decays”, p.3

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• All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

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  Spiritual, Blood, Flesh

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.122

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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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  Eye, Men, May

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

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• We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

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  Soul, Needs, States

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.85, David C Cook

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• The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

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  Heaven, Grace, Privilege

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• There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.

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  Humble, Mean, Greatness

  John Owen (1774). “Nature, Power, Deceit and Prevalency of Indwelling Sin in Believers ...”, p.86

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• Meditate on the Word in the Word.

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  John Owen (2015). “Indwelling Sin in Believers”, p.82, Gideon House Books

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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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  Bears, Weight, Gargoyles

  John Owen (1991). “The Works of John Owen”

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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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  World, Sin, This World

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

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• There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed upon. It will always be so while we live in this world. Sin will not spare for one day. There is no safety but in a constant warfare for those who desire deliverance from sin's perplexing rebellion.

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  Safety, One Day, Desire

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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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  Son, Suffering And Death, Judging

  John Owen “Epistle to the Hebrews”, Kregel Publications

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• Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.

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  War, Drawing, Grace

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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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  Son, Sin, Christ

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• He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself

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  Spring, Heart, Dragons

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• What do we want? What would we be at? What do our souls desire? Is it not that we might have a more full, clear, stable comprehension of the wisdom, love, grace, goodness, holiness, righteousness, and power of God, as declared and exalted in Christ unto our redemption and eternal salvation?

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  Christian, Grace, Soul

  John Owen “The Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ & Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ”, Lulu.com

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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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  Peace With God, Done, May

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• He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.

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  Work Out, Able, Christianity

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• All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

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  Done, Way, Spirit

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

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• We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

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  Principles, Obedience, Good Work

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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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  Men, Alive, Sin

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Mortification of Sin”, Lulu.com

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• the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

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  Idols, Exaltation, Poison

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• Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

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  Sin, States, Opposition

  John Owen (1772). “A practical exposition of the CXXX. psalm: Wherein The Nature of the Forgiveness of Sin is declared, the Truth and Reality of it asserted; and The Case of a Soul distressed with the Guilt of Sin, and relieved by a Discovery of Forgiveness with God, is at large discoursed”, p.371

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• When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.

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  Men, Grace, Doctrine

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.52

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• Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

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  Evil, Temptation, Gains

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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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  Spiritual, Lying, Sins Not

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Mortification of Sin”, Lulu.com

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