The Mortification of Sin : A Puritan's View of How to Deal with the Sin in Your Life (Paperback)

from 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...

from

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.

from 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...

from 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.

from 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...