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1 " The use of means for the obtaining of peace is ours; the bestowing of it is God's prerogative. "
― John Owen , The Works of John Owen: The Mortification Of Sin, Catechisms, Of Justification by Faith, Pneumatologia, Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy ... (27 Books With Active Table of Contents)
2 " They will readily change truth for error, who find no more sweetness in the one than in the other. "
3 " If prayer do not constantly endeavour the ruin of sin, sin will ruin prayer, and utterly alienate the soul from it. "
4 " What promise hath any unregenerate man to countenance him in this work? what assistance for the performance of it? Can sin be killed without an interest in the death of Christ, or mortified without the Spirit? "
5 " The true and acceptable principles of mortification shall be afterward insisted on. Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification. "
6 " By some men's too much understanding, others are brought to understand nothing at all. "
7 " Whatever impeacheth the universality of obedience in one thing overthrows its sincerity in all things. "