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• Leanness of body and soul may go together.

  John Owen

  Soul, Together, Body

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• Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

  John Owen

  Self, Soul, Sin

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

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• The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."

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  Believe, Men, Scripture

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

  John Owen

  Exercise, Science, Men

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

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• Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this ariseth mostly not from want of light and instruction, but for want of consideration and application.

  John Owen

  Ignorance, Light, Principles

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.637

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• It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.

  John Owen

  Enemy, Doe, Half

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.11

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• A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

  John Owen

  Good Day, Men, May

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

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• He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though but one is so to him.

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  Omission, Lust, Care

  "Temptation and Sin".

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• Herein would I live; herein would I die; hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections; to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, unto the crucifying all things here below, until they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate embraces.

  John Owen

  World, Way, Affection

  "Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ".

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• A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed on and thrive in the digestion of the food which he provides for others will scarce make it savoury unto them; yea, he knows not but the food he hath provided may be poison, unless he have really tasted of it himself. If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

  John Owen

  Men, Soul, Poison

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.76

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• To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

  John Owen

  Angel, Men, Safety

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 287-88, 1922.

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• When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as water that fails; nor hath he said at any time to the seed of Jacob, "Seek ye my face in vain." If Christ be chosen for the foundation of our supply, he will not fail us.

  John Owen

  Heart, Water, Faces

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.83, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• We are taught in an especial manner to pray that God would give his Holy Spirit unto us, that through his aid and assistance we may live unto God in that holy obedience which he requires at our hands.

  John Owen

  Hands, Giving, May

  John Owen (1841). “A treatise on the Holy Spirit and his operations: An exposition of the 130th Psalm”, p.84

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• Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

  John Owen

  Prayer, Hatred, Temptation

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• It must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of spiritual things excited, multiplied, and confirmed, by the preaching of the word.

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  Spiritual, Men, May

  John Owen (2014). “Spiritual-Mindedness”, p.29, Ravenio Books

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• No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its necessity to be but fond imaginations. And small hope is there to bring such men to value the righteousness of Christ, as imputed to them, who are so unacquainted with their own unrighteousness inherent in them. Until men know themselves better, they will care very little to know Christ at all.

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  Dream, Men, Imagination

  John Owen “The Doctrine of Justification by Faith”, Lulu.com

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• Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

  John Owen

  Eye, Compassion, Soul

  John Owen (2001). “Communion with God”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.

  John Owen

  Roots, Sin, Hours

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.12, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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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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  Spiritual, Woe Unto, Desire

  John Owen (1828). “Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded”, p.203

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• Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.

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  Spiritual, Imagination, Mind

  John Owen (2001). “The Person of Christ”, p.159, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The Scripture abounds in commands and cautions for our utmost diligence in our search and inquiry as to whether we are made partakers of Christ or not, or whether His Spirit dwells in us or not-which argue both the difficulty of attaining an assured confidence herein, as also the danger of our being mistaken, and yet the certainty of a good issue upon the diligent and regular use of means to that purpose.

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  Religious, Mean, Issues

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• Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.

  John Owen

  Faith, Eye, Race

  John Owen (1995). “The Works of John Owen”

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• A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.

  John Owen

  Ocean, Rivers, Issues

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.397

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• The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

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  Home, Son, Men

  John Owen (1852). “The works ...”, p.40

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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

  Yesterday, Tomorrow, Far Away

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