NATIONAL SINS AND JUDGEMENTS A modernised and abbreviated version of a sermon by Dr. John Owen preached in 1679. For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory. The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they …
Author: John Owen
THE IMPUTATION OF SIN AND RIGHTEOUSNESS John Owen 1616-1683 When we have opportunity of speaking to you on these occasions, it is for the direction of the exercise of your faith in this ordinance in a due manner. Here is a representation of that which we should principally consider, and act faith with respect unto, …
Sin may be the occasion of great sorrow, when there is no sorrow for sin.. John Owen
CONCERN FOR THE SINS OF THE DAY John Owen 1616-1683* QUESTION. What concern have we in the sins of the day wherein we live? ANSWER. All sins may be referred to two heads:- First, Irreligion. Secondly, Immorality. First. Irreligion; and that may be reduced to two heads, – atheism and false worship: you may add, …
For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. – 2 Cor. 5.21
Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the Spirit – 1 Peter 3.18.
There are three things to be considered concerning the glory of Christ, three degrees of its manifestation, the shadow, the perfect image, and the substance itself. Those under the law had only the shadow of it and of the things that belong to it… Under the Gospel we have the perfect image, which they had …
Though Noah’s servants built the ark, yet themselves were drowned. God will not accept of the tongue where the devil has the soul. Jesus did “do and teach.” If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine. …
FOR WHOM DID CHRIST DIE? In volume 10 of the Works of John Owen, reprinted by the Banner of Truth in 1967 there is a long and powerful discussion of the question of the extent of the Atonement under the title The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. For anyone who is troubled …
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation as David did before he fell …