Category: John Owen
Until we find him, or he return unto us, as in former days.
Sometimes it may be that He is withdrawn from us, so as that we cannot hear his voice, nor behold…
A work far more admirable than creating the world out of nothing: Saving sinners through faith.
Consider His wisdom, His infinite wisdom in orchestrating all things for His own glory and the good of those He…
God’s Patience and Forbearance
It is evident to all that God does not ordinarily immediately punish people for their offenses. This can be observed…
Your lack of belief in His love is the only way you can truly trouble or burden Him.
The Father Himself loves you in an extraordinary manner. Be certain of this, so that you may have communion with…
Until we find him, or he return unto us, as in former days.
The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart. Rom 10:8 Let us get it fixed…
Faith is Seeing the Glory of Christ: the Manifestation of Those Divine Excellencies
The essence of faith consists in a due ascription of glory to God, Rom. iv. 20. This we cannot attain…
The nearest approach to glory that we are capable of in this world: 1) Abide in holy thoughts of God and your relation to Him; if not, 2) Reflect on the cause of it to your further humiliation and self-abasement.
Why is it this way with us, that we cannot abide in thoughts and meditations of things spiritual and heavenly?…
Evidence of Spiritual Mindedness
To “walk with God,” to “live unto him,” is not merely to be found abstaining from outward sins, and performing…
It is an absurd thing for men to esteem themselves Christians, who scarcely think of Christ all day long.
Love of him is no less necessary to us than faith in him; and although we have powerful motives to…
The most effectual means to wean the heart and affections from things here below, is to keep the mind to an undervaluation, indeed, a contempt of these things, as occasion requires.
For there is a season in which there is such a contempt required in us of all relations and enjoyments,…
The Object of Hope: Eternal Glory. Abide in thoughts and contemplation of the things that are hoped for.
Suppose various persons engaged in a voyage to a most remote country, in which all of them apprehend they will…
Within the Veil: A due meditation on things that are unseen and eternal.
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their…
Consider whether thoughts of spiritual things constantly take possession in their proper seasons.
There are times and seasons in the course of men’s lives, in which they retire themselves into their own thoughts….
What measure, that we may know when we abound in spiritual thoughts, so that they may be an evidence of our being spiritually minded?
We can therefore have no greater evidence of a change in us from this state and condition, than a change…
Not like guests who come into an inn, but like children who dwell in the house.
But those thoughts that are natural and genuine, arising from a living spring of grace in the heart, disposing the…
Spiritual Mindedness: A Life of Meditation and Holy Contemplation on Things Above.
To be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom 8:6 Set your affection on things above. Col 3:2 There is…
How we may know when we abound in spiritual thoughts, so as that they may be an evidence of our being spiritually minded.
I answer, in general, among other Scriptures read over Psalm 119 with understanding. Consider therein what David expresseth of himself,…
Unless We Abound In Spiritual Thoughts
It is the character of all men in the state of depraved nature and apostasy from God, that “every imagination…
The Power of Conviction
It is in the nature of water to descend; but apply an instrument unto it that shall make a compression…
Thanksgiving Cannot Exist Without Joy
However much our spirits might shrink beneath the cross, naturally adverse to its bitterness, they will expand in equal measure…
His Covenant With Us: Like the Ordinances of Heaven, the Sun, Moon, and Stars
God tells us that his covenant with us is like the “ordinances” of heaven, the sun, moon, and stars, which…
A Secret Instinct in Faith, whereby it knows the Voice of Christ
He that hath his senses exercised to discern good or evil, being increased in judgment and experience by a constant…
Watch! Lest Thou be King of Syria
Consider what occasions, what advantages thy distemper hath taken to exert and put forth itself, and watch against them all….
Consider Thy Ways: Folly!
Consider the infinite patience and forbearance of God towards thee. Consider what advantages he might have taken against thee, to…
Say to thy soul, “What have I done?”
“What love, what mercy, what blood, what grace have I despised and trampled on! Is this the return I make…
No Greater Motive Unto Holiness, than this…
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend, of whom he hath well deserved,…
That Thou Mayst Carry About Thee Broken Bones, All the Days of Thy Life
To have peace with God, to have strength to walk before God, is the sum of the great promises of…
Hardening of the Heart: Can a Sadder Thing Befall Thee?
…and thou shalt not be at all concerned, but shalt be able to pass over duties, praying, hearing, reading, and…
Called to Remembrance the Former Lovingkindness of the Lord
For a man to gather up his experiences of God, to call them to mind, to collect them, consider, try,…
Unless Indeed He Be So
Unless a man be a believer,—that is, one that is truly ingrafted into Christ,—he can never mortify any one sin;…
Readiness in Warfare: Knowing the Plague of Your Own Heart
A man may beat down the bitter fruit from an evil tree until he is weary; whilst the root abides…
Psalms 88
(A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the…