# “Fix your affections upon heavenly things” by John Owen

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“Fix your affections upon heavenly things; this will enable you to mortify sin; 
fill them with the things that are above, let them be exercised with them, and so
enjoy the chief place in them. They are above, blessed and suitable objects, meet
for and answering unto our affections—God himself, in his beauty and glory; the 
Lord Jesus Christ, who is ‘altogether lovely,’ the ‘chief of ten thousand’ [Song
5:16, 10]; grace and glory; the mysteries revealed in the gospel; the blessedness
promised thereby. Were our affections filled, taken up, and possessed with these
things, as it is our duty that they should be—it is our happiness when they are—
what access could sin, with its painted pleasures, with its sugared poisons, with
its envenomed baits, have unto our souls? How should we loathe all its proposals,
and say unto them, ‘Get you hence as an abominable thing!’ For what are the vain,
transitory pleasures of sin in comparison to the exceeding recompense of reward 
which is proposed unto us?”

-–John Owen, _The Works of John Owen_, ed. William Goold, (Edinburgh: Banner of 
Truth, 1965), Vol. VI: p. 250.

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