There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it … - John Owen

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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

John Owen

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.

Day, Foiled, Live, Sin, This World, World

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We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

Design, Heaven, Immortality, Occasional, Religious, Things

As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend. . . so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.

Chosen, Friend, Heart, Hearts, Loving Friends, Spirit

Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.

Affections, Alliance, Drawing, Enthroned, Grace, War

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

Affection, Cross, May, Room, Rooms, Sin

Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.

Christ, Joy, Loves, People

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