John Owen

John OwenJohn Owen (1616-1683) was an English Nonconformist church leader, theologian, and academic administrator at the University of Oxford. He was briefly a member of parliament for the University’s constituency, sitting in the First Protectorate Parliament of 1654 to 1655.

John Owen Quotes

A soul doth never glorify or honour Christ upon a discovery or sense of the eternal redemption he hath purchased for him, but it is in him a peculiar effect of the Holy Ghost as our comforter.

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No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there

—John Owen

No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there

—John Owen

If he will bring to our remembrance the promises of Christ for our consolation, neither Satan nor man, sin nor world, nor death, shall interrupt our comfort.

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*Boldness* with God by Christ is another privilege of our adoption.

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In Christ. All strength to walk with God is from him.

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The sons of God have a right and title to all, in that they are made heirs with Christ.

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The knowledge of ourselves, in reference to our supernatural end, is no small portion of our wisdom.

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The aim of the Lord Jesus in establishing gospel administrations, and administrators, is ‘for the perfecting of the saints, the work of the ministry,’ etc. All is for them, all is for the family.

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All spiritual liberty is from the Spirit of adoption; whatever else is pretended, is licentiousness.

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He is to *sprinkle* that blood upon their souls; he is to *create* the holiness in them that they long after; he is to be himself in them a *well* of water springing up to eternal life.

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Now, this *bunch* of hyssop, wherein the blood of purification was prepared for the sprinkling of the unclean, is (unto us) the free promises of Christ.

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Christ calls, and they come forth, the call being accompanied with life and power.

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The death of sin is procured by, and discovered in, the death of Christ

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The Lord, on the behalf of Christ, for his sake, because it is purchased and procured by him for us, bestows faith, and (by same rule) all grace upon us.

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That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.

—John Owen

That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.

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The eternal love of the Father is not the fruit but the fountain of his purchase

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He both satisfied for sin and procured the promise. He procures all the love and kindness which are the fruits of the covenant, being himself the original promise thereof

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If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.

—John Owen

If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.

—John Owen

‘Why, this is mine,’ says Christ; ‘this agreement I made with my Father, that I should come, and take thy sins, and bear them away: they were my lot. Give me thy *burden*, give me all thy *sins*..’

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He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.

—John Owen

He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.

—John Owen

He that walks in the light of new obedience, he hath communion with God, and in his presence is fulness of joy for ever; without it, there is nothing but darkness, and wandering, and confusion.

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God hath committed all his properties into the hand of Christ if I may so say, to be managed in our behalf, and for our good.

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We are not freed from obedience, as a way of walking with God, but we are, as a way of working to come to him

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He that will sorely revenge the least opposition that is or shall be made to him by others, was content to undergo any thing, all things, for believers.

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Christ manifests and evidences his love to his saints in a *way of bounty*, – in that rich, plentiful provision he makes for them.

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He is grieved when, through *darkness and unbelief*, we will not, do not, receive those consolations which he tenders to us, and which he is abundantly willing that we should receive.

—John Owen