To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief.
John OwenIf 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.
John OwenThe more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.
John OwenThere wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.
John OwenIt must be observed, that the best of men, the most holy and spiritually minded, may have, nay, ought to have, their thoughts of spiritual things excited, multiplied, and confirmed, by the preaching of the word.
John Owen