How to Deal with Sin in Your Life (John Owen)

- excerpt from John Owen's "The Mortification of Sin" (A Puritan's view on how to deal with sin in your life):

"Now this is, first, the most unjust and unreasonable thing in the world; when two combatants are engaged, to bind one and keep him up from doing his utmost, and to leave the other at liberty to wound him at his pleasure: and, second, the foolishest thing in the world to bind him who fights for our eternal condition, and to let him alone who seeks and violently attempts our everlasting ruin.  The contest is for our lives and souls.  Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin, is to neglect that excellent assistance which God hath given us against our greatest enemy."  (ch.1, p.32).

For a short outline of Owen's treatise, click HERE. 

For a 12-page reading summary in PDF format (written by John Thune), click HERE.