John Owen: The Primary Purpose of the Gospel

10 Feb

1616 -1683. Preeminent English Puritan theologian, pastor, and independent.

God’s great and first design, in and by the gospel, is eternally to glorify himself, his wisdom, goodness, love, grace, righteousness, and holiness, by Jesus Christ, Eph. 1:5,6.

~John Owen~





The Works of John Owen, ed. William H. Goold, vol. 3: Pneumatologia: A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, n.d.), 377.

Books by John Owen

Kindle Books

Biography of John Owen

Other Owen Quotes

Tags: ,

2 Responses to “John Owen: The Primary Purpose of the Gospel”

  1. lacykitkat February 10, 2014 at 6:11 am #

    Reblogged this on HE STILL SPEAKS!.

    Reply
  2. mydelightandmycounsellors February 10, 2014 at 9:47 am #

    Reblogged this on My Delight and My Counsellors.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: