A Few Quotes From John Owen
Josh May 12th, 2006
Though proven to be an effort to read, John Owen’s ingenuis (no doubt due to the grace of God in His studies) is something to be appreciated by all. Just a (re)cursory glance at his The Mortification of Sin reminds me again of one of the works in which I need to actively involve myself as a believer: RIGHT! Mortification
Anyway, just a few quotes from our beloved John Owen:
“Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until he be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so will he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.”
“Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction”
“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.”
As I think on it, I’m reminded the times that I’ve misquoted, or heard misquoted, the passages where Jesus says, “Watch and pray that you will not _____ into temptation.” I’m so accustomed to having heard (and even said) fall, when Jesus said enter. In other words, my heart is so deceitful that Jesus told me to be alert so as to not even ENTER into temptation, much less try to keep from falling while under it. God grant me grace to submit myself to Him, resisting the devil, while he flees as the fading foe that he is.
Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
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