The Life of the Rev. John Owen, D.D., Abridged from Orme's Life of Owen

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Presbyterian board of publication, 1840 - 256 pages
 

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Page 221 - Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness" sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Page 31 - Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears and temptations which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews: and how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house, testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 206 - So it was esteemed by the apostles, — they rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name's sake.
Page 172 - This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.
Page 206 - Philippians in a peculiar manner that it was given to them, not only to believe in Christ, but also to suffer for Him...
Page 31 - I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 31 - I commend you to God, and the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Page 21 - So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth ; but God that giveth the increase.
Page 105 - A declaration of the faith and order owned and practised in the congregational churches in England, agreed upon, and consented unto by their elders and messengers in their meeting at the Savoy, October 12, 1658.
Page 36 - IT is absolutely necessary that the government of the church be exercised under some certain and definite form. And we hold it to be expedient, and agreeable to Scripture and the practice of the primitive Christians, that the church be governed by congregational, presbyterial, and synodical assemblies.

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