Duties of Christian Fellowship
by John Owen
Drawn from Owen's early work Eshcol, this short manual sets out the responsibilities Christians owe to their pastors and to one another within the local church. Owen frames church membership as a shared life of mutual love, prayer, watchfulness, and edification ordered by the rule of the gospel.
Based on Eshcol: A Cluster of the Fruit of Canaan (1648), by John Owen
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Owen
“Prayer for the good, prosperity, flourishing, peace, increase, edification, and protection of the church is a duty every day required of all the members thereof.”
“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
“He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.”
“Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.”
“Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.”
“Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.”
“A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.”
“To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead, sin is alive, and will live.”
“All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.”
“Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes.”
