John Owen
John Owen
kinds ways
They have all kinds of ways of making you pay.
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.
punishment church able
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.
rocks house grace
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
servant-of-god christ servant
Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.
persuasion christ
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
enemy christ worst
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.
gargoyles bears weight
It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.
god-is-love teach folly
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.
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.
lust christ vain
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.
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.
should-have should-have-listened should
I did not hear what I should have listened to.
kings communication eye
The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?