John Owen
John Owen
record verdict
After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.
comfort deeds depends life power vigor
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
assets cheap either gives opportunity pick
It gives them an opportunity to either pick up those assets on the cheap or to have someone else come in and re-franchise the area.
kinds ways
They have all kinds of ways of making you pay.
elephants swim wade
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
omission lust care
He, then, that would 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 only one be burdensome to him.
yesterday tomorrow far-away
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.