The Mortification of Sin

by John Owen

Paperback, 2020

Call number

241.3 Owe

Collections

Your library, Red Label-Puritans

Genres

Religion & Spirituality

All Topics

Nonfiction

Publication

Banner of Truth (2020), 130 pp

ISBN

0851518672 / 9780851518671

Description

Written by John Owen, one of the best known of the Puritans. In The Mortification of Sin, John Owen insisted on the importance of the Christian dealing effectively with their sinful tendencies and attitudes. He believed that God, through his Word and Spirit, had provided the guidelines and the power for this to be achieved. Owen effectively dismisses various excuses for not engaging in self scrutiny and yet avoids the current trend of self absorption. In so doing he provides principles to help believers live lives of holiness. As with all of Owen's writings, continues to be widely read and greatly appreciated to this day.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Travis_Carden

Owen's Mortification was the first Puritan book I ever read, through which I fell in love with an author and with a genre. Owen isn't as easy to read as, say, Jonathan Edwards, but he is supremely worth it. He speaks on the sinfulness of the heart with such power and profundity, convincing you of

the profanity and wretchedness of it and making it unthinkable. This may be the most impactful humanly authored book I've ever read.

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LibraryThing member acotnoir

I'm thankful for this abridgment, easing my way into this difficult but enduringly helpful classic. I plan to re-read it in the future. It's a how-to manual for an exceedingly difficult procedure (killing sin) that we're constantly and insidiously bending away from; these short pages show you how

and convince you towards action. Praise God for His sanctification work in His people!

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LibraryThing member david__clifford

A great little book that will make you think differently about the sin that so easily entangles us causes us to not look to the Jesus and the finished work on the cross.

LibraryThing member lachlanp

This edition was very easy to read. Owen's writing tends to be systematic in its explorations of a subject, as he doesn't want to miss a thing, and this book was no exception. But it was still helpful and searching, and stirred me up to pray on multiple occasions when I felt cold in heart.

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