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    This document provides a summary and analysis of John Owen's 1656 book "Mortification of Sin in Believers". It describes the book as dense but important for understanding how to kill sin. It was written in complex Elizabethan language and style like Shakespeare. Owen used precise arguments and structuring supported by many Bible verses. The document recommends reading the book and provides links to download and purchase different versions. It explains Owen wrote the book to correct other teachings on mortifying sin as an end in itself or for salvation. He was encouraged by friends to publish the sermons on this topic.

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    This document provides a summary and analysis of John Owen's 1656 book "Mortification of Sin in Believers". It describes the book as dense but important for understanding how to kill sin. It was written in complex Elizabethan language and style like Shakespeare. Owen used precise arguments and structuring supported by many Bible verses. The document recommends reading the book and provides links to download and purchase different versions. It explains Owen wrote the book to correct other teachings on mortifying sin as an end in itself or for salvation. He was encouraged by friends to publish the sermons on this topic.

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    This document provides a summary and analysis of John Owen's 1656 book "Mortification of Sin in Believers". It describes the book as dense but important for understanding how to kill sin. It was written in complex Elizabethan language and style like Shakespeare. Owen used precise arguments and structuring supported by many Bible verses. The document recommends reading the book and provides links to download and purchase different versions. It explains Owen wrote the book to correct other teachings on mortifying sin as an end in itself or for salvation. He was encouraged by friends to publish the sermons on this topic.

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    Mortification of Sin in Believers

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    This document provides a summary and analysis of John Owen's 1656 book "Mortification of Sin in Believers". It describes the book as dense but important for understanding how to kill sin. It was written in complex Elizabethan language and style like Shakespeare. Owen used precise arguments and structuring supported by many Bible verses. The document recommends reading the book and provides links to download and purchase different versions. It explains Owen wrote the book to correct other teachings on mortifying sin as an end in itself or for salvation. He was encouraged by friends to publish the sermons on this topic.

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    Monster

    Cheat Sheet
    for John
    Owen's
    Mortification
    of Sin in
    Believers

    John Owen's
    Mortification of Sin in Believers
    is a beast of a book.
    It's not a beast in size--it clocks in at 84 pages. It's a beast in content, language
    and style:
    Content:
    Mortification (killing) of sin doesn't get a lot of work in our
    modern
    churches
    . Neither do the methods behind killing sin. So it will be a
    shock to the
    system for believer and unbeliever
    alike.
    Language:
    Published in 1656, when Owen was 40,
    Mortification
    shares some of
    the same characteristics of a Shakespearean play. A reader must untangle
    complex sentences and bone up on his Elizabethan vocabulary.
    Style:
    Owens writes like a lawyer. His arguments are precise (liberal use of
    verses from both the Old and Testament) and highly structured. And then there is
    a hierarchy that demands a close reading.
    No wonder an
    anonymous biographer said Owen
    "travels through [his subjects]
    with the grace of an elephant." And that's funny, because Owen actually
    called
    Mortification
    his "little discourse."
    I guess you can make that kind of statement when you are the
    greatest theologian
    in the English Language
    .
    In a future post I'll follow up with the reasons why a close reading will be worth
    it, in the meantime I hope this cheat sheet will give you a taste--and desire--
    for
    Mortification
    .
    And keep in mind, this cheat sheet is dense because John Owen is dense: it is
    hard to determine what should go and what should stay because it all is very
    important.
    My goal is to encourage you to pick up a copy of Mortification
    and read it
    . I had
    the privilege of studying it with a great friend, which is an effective tactic to
    reading Owen. I highly recommend it.
    Grab a copy here:
    PDF of the Mortification of Sin in Believers
    (This is how I read it.)
    Google Books

    Book at Amazon

    Kindle Version

    Audio version--Free

    Abridged Version by Richard Rushing

    Why Owen's Wrote Mortification of Sin in


    Believers (Preface)
    So the burning question is this: why did John Owen write this book? His answer
    is three fold.
    He preached it because he wanted to set the record straight.
    Believers
    struggling to resist sin: At peace with the world, themselves, their sin. Self
    wrought mortification taught by some, which is unbearable, foreign to the gospel,
    responsible for superstitions, self-righteousness and causes anxiety.
    Men preaching mortification of sin as an end in itself.
    He targets the
    Papists, which is a derogatory slur for Roman Catholicism, who are guilty of
    teaching both the regenerate and unregenerate to mortify sin as a means to gain
    God. This rubbed Owen's the wrong way. Big time.
    His friends and colleagues encouraged him to publish it as a
    book.
    This book started out as a series of sermons. The people who heard the
    sermons thought Owen's should publish the sermons.
    Having preached on this subject unto some comfortable success, through the
    grace of Him that adminstereth the seed to the sower, I was pressed by sundry
    persons, in whose hearts are the ways of God, thus to publish what I delivered,
    with such additions and alterations I should judge necessary.

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