Tag: affections

• Let His Cross Interpose

  Whatever be your designs and aims, let his cross continually interpose between your affections and this world…. What he [Jesus] did forego and trample on for our sake, that ought not to be the object of our affections; nor can such affections prevail in us if he dwell in our hearts by faith.” – John…

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  November 4, 2014

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• No Greater Judgment

  In chapter 12 of his book on Spiritual Mindedness John Owen writes, “Without spiritual affections we cannot be spiritually minded.” He then tells us why this is so. “By nature our affections, all of them, are depraved and corrupted. Nothing in the whole nature of man, no power or faculty of the soul, is fallen…

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  November 2, 2014

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