"...stir yoursel[f]...to choose and close with the way of forgiveness that hath been revealed.  Choose it only, choose it in comparison with and opposition to all others.  Say you will be for Christ, and not for another; and be so accordingly.  Here venture, here repos...

"...let me add that I am glad this word is spoken...unto you.  You and I must one day be accountable for this discourse.  That word that hath already been spoken, if neglected, will prove a sore testimony against you.  It will not fare well with you as with other men w...

"The Scripture proposeth [the gospel of Jesus Christ]...as an object of eternal admiration: 'So God loved the world;' 'Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us first.'  Live in this admiration, and do your utmost, in your several opportunities, to...

"I bless God that I have had this opportunity to bear testimony to the grace of God in Christ; which if it be not received, it is because 'the god of this world hath blinded the eyes of men, that the light of the gospel of the glory of God should not shine into their...

"Take heed, you that hear...these things; if they are not mixed with faith, they will add greatly to your misery."

-John Owen, "An Exposition of Psalm 130".  The Works of John Owen, Volume VI.  The Banner of Truth Trust: Carlisle, PA.  (1668) 2000.  p.469....

"...encourage poor sinners to believe...and...evidence how inexcusable they will be left who notwithstanding all this, do, through the power of their lusts and unbelief, refuse to come to God in Christ that they may be pardoned."

-John Owen, "An Exposition of Psalm 130...

"The law speaks nothing to a sinner but what his conscience assures him to be true."

-John Owen, An Exposition of Psalm 130.  The Banner of Truth Trust: Carlisle, PA.  (1668) 2000.  p.390.