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A gift to the church - Rated
Do you have problems fighting sin? Have you read countless books, looking for how to rid yourselves of those sins which you hate? Do you find that sin in your life robs you of joy in God?
John Owen's Mortification of Sin, faithfully reproduced in Overcoming Sin and Temptation is written for you.
The truth is that there isn't a secret trick or ploy which will rid you of that sin, which Owen demonstrates superbly. He weighs on your mind the importance of killing the sin that lives in you ('be killing sin or sin will be killing you') and proceeds to show you how.
Owen is like a doctor telling you about your terminal illness. There is something inside you which if left alone will rob you of your joy and kill you. He then tells you how to deal with it.
'It won't be easy', he tells you. There will be some painful procedures and treatments that you'll have to attend to. And he's not talking about a couple of pills once a day, he's talking about constant exercise .
As you read this book, expect your pride to be bruised, your ego beaten, but your soul nourished and ready to take war on your sin.
I heartily recommend this book which has been of great help to me, and countless others. It will be hard to read at points, but it's well worth persevering.
It is the first of three books contained in Overcoming Sin and Temptation, written by John Owen, edited by Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor. They've done an excellent job in preserving John Owen's thought and writing whilst making it accessible to modern readers. They footnote definitions of the unusual words, and those which were used differently in Owen's time. They also include introductions to each book and a foreword by John Piper.
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A book to read and reread - Rated
If you only read one book this year (apart from the Bible itself), then read this one. The three books by John Owen contained in this volume have been a great blessing to me. It is great now to have an updated version without abridgement. Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor have replaced archaic spellings with modern ones; provided explanatory footnotes for difficult words and phrases; and added headings to indicate better the flow of Owen's thought. The result is a pleasure to read.
Owen (1616-1683) was a Puritan theologian - perhaps the greatest English theologian ever. But his theology is never abstract or obtuse. It is always concerned with true Christian experience and pastoral application. It is suffused with his love for God, concern for people and passion for holiness.
What Owen does in this collection of books is humble us before God by exposing the sin that resides in our hearts. But Owen does not leave us humbled. He lifts us up by pointing us to the Saviour. He highlights the work of the cross and the work of the Spirit in our sanctification.
Reading these books is not simply to be informed about sin and sanctification - important as that is. I have found reading them to be a kind of spiritual exercise in itself. I wish I had read these books twenty years ago. Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor have done us a great service in making them more accessible. My only complaint is that it is a paperback because this is a book to read and reread.
