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John Owen says the Bible is the word of God and the source of true spiritual insight. He teaches that faith and repentance are the only fruit of a genuine gospel. He also describes Christ as the food that nourishes our souls and gives lasting strength.

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Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

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There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.

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Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

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If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

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If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

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“a sense of the love of Christ in the cross; lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification”

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We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

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For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor…

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To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are…

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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!…

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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

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“Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person.”

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To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a…

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Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should…

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“There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.”

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“The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of…

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When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable…

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Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company…

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Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if…

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“The Holy Spirit is promised of God to be given to us, to do this work (of mortification). The taking away of…

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I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I…

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Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.…

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When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a…

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Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along, while we live, it hath faithful company…

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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…

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I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of…

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Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty,…

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“have more fully discoursed elsewhere; -but this revelation of the Spirit consists in his effectual operation, freeing our minds from darkness, ignorance,…

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He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

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The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

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The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

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See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.

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Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his…

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Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of…

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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…

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In or towards whomsoever the Holy Spirit puts forth His power, or acts his grace for their regeneration, he removes all obstacles,…

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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…

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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…

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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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A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.

Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go…

Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of…

He, then, that would really, thoroughly, and acceptably mortify any disquieting lust, let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of…