John Owen
John Owen
doors soul spirit
Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes with a Spirit of life and power.
spiritual soul desire
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.
darkness bitterness affliction
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
christian believe doctrine
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.
soul christianity glorify
It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.
war drawing soul
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.
character grace age
There is only one way to be revived and healed from our backslidings so that we may become fruitful even in old age. We must take a steady look at the glory of Christ in His special character, in His grace and work, as shown to us in the Scripture.
encouragement sin neglect
He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.
jesus grace christ
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.
reading looks benefits
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.
evil threatening holy
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
heart sin seeds
The seed of every sin is in every heart.
men sorrow sin
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
way obedience revelations
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...