“When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, He does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.” - John Owen
Trying
to be holy from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the
end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in
the world.
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John Owen, The Mortification of Sin, p. 23.
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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 thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and
disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no
room for sin. - John
Owen
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The vigour, and power,
and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of
the flesh...The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning
power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the
indwelling power of sin...Do 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. - John Owen
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Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ
died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die for no one man at all. — John Owen
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