Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our … - John Owen

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Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times.

John Owen

Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can do these things by our own efforts is to trample on the cross and grace of Jesus Christ. Whatever God works in us by his grace, he commands us to do as our duty. God works all in us and by us.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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

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