If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.
John OwenThe least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.
John OwenAssurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.
John OwenWhen we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us.
John Owen