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No man preaches a sermon well to others who does not first preach it to his own heart.
Preaching0Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Chapter 2Sin0Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Chapter 2
Without absolutes revealed from God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas.
Truth0Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls
Holiness0The gospel is most wickedly eclipsed while multitudes of petty "scholars" fret themselves how they might best teach the faith within a rigidly structured, accurate, methodical-philosophical form! A great multitude of errors have swarmed into the church through the reception of philosophy, like Greeks out of the belly of the Trojan horse...The clear fact is that the common, Aristotelian philosophy supplied sufficient materials for an infinity of quarrels and useless disputes. The facts shout out to heaven that our little, witty, chattering sophists, in their endless wrangling over the "articles of faith," are simply raking over the embers of Aristotle's philosophy, and in so doing they irritate the throne of Almighty God with legal quarrels and cheap tricks...It is a result of this that our theological libraries are packed full of weighty tomes, and our disputes are without end, and the most about matters, assertions and terms the Christian world would have done far better never to have heard of -and would not have heard of if they had not happened to enter the fertile brain of Aristotle so long ago! But the full catalog, the great Iliad of evils so produced, this is not the place to try to expound in detail.
Biblical Theology: The History of Theology from Adam to ChristPhilosophy, Greeks, Theology0Biblical Theology: The History of Theology from Adam to Christ
It is better that our affections exceed our light from the defect of our understandings, than that our light exceed our affections from the corruption of our wills.
Works, Vol 1. 401Contemplation0Works, Vol 1. 401
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.
Unbelief0A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
Prayer0Lusts that pretend to be useful to the state and condition of men, that are pleasant and satisfactory to the flesh, will not be mortified without such a violence as the whole soul shall be deeply sensible of.
https://ccel.org/ccel/owen/pneum/pneum.i.viii.viii.htmlSin, Lust0Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.
Idolatry0he that would be little in temptation, let him be much in prayer
https://ccel.org/ccel/owen/temptation/temptation.i.viii.htmlTemptation, Prayer0No repentance is acceptable with God but what is built on the faith of forgiveness
Faith, Repentance, Forgiveness0All idolatry tries to minimize the gulf between the Creator and his creatures, in order to bring him under our control.
Idolatry0[Sin] cannot be killed without a sense of pain and trouble. Hence it is compared to the cutting off of right hands, and the plucking out of right eyes.
https://ccel.org/ccel/owen/pneum/pneum.i.viii.viii.htmlSin0Temptations and occasions put nothing into man, but only draw out what was in him before.
Temptation0We do not have the ability in ourselves to accomplish the least of God's tasks. This is the law of grace.
Grace, Work0A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.
Idolatry0He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.
Sin0no man preacheth that sermon well that doth not first preach it to his own heart-If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us
Preaching0There is a call, a cry, in every rod of God, in every chastising providence; and therein He makes a declaration of His name, His holiness, His power, His greatness.
Providence0Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to hear of being born of God.
New Birth0Sin does not only still abide in us but is still acting, still laboring to bring forth the deeds of the flesh. When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone, but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.
Sin, Mortification0Remember in particular the love of Jesus Christ, as God-man, in giving Himself for us. This love is frequently proposed to us with what He did for us, and it is represented peculiarly in this ordinance: "Who loved me and gave Himself for me," says the apostle. Faith will never be able to live upon the last expression "gave Himself for me" unless it can rise up to the first, "who loved me." Who "loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," etc. (Rev. 1:5–6).
The Lord's Supper, Communion0There are three ways whereby God represents Christ to the faith of believers. The one is by the word of the gospel itself, as written; the second is by the ministry of the gospel and preaching of the word; and the third by this sacrament, wherein we represent the Lord's death to the faith of our own souls.
The Lord's Supper, Communion0However men may contrive to cheat themselves, God is not truly great in the soul till all other things become as nothing; neither doth the soul rightly converse with His infinite fullness so long as anything stands in opposition to it or competition with it.
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