Many Christians today are not making much progress in their lives, even though they attend meetings steadily and have regular devotions. They faithfully fulfill their religious responsibilities, but their hearts never seem to be close to the Lord. What is the reason for this? Perhaps the root is indwelling sin.
This book is part of Owen's trilogy on sin. In this book, John Owen exposes the deceitful ways in which indwelling sin invades the human heart, and Owen provides crucial insights into the impact that the sin nature has on our daily walk with Christ. He teaches believers to be on the alert for every move of indwelling sin so that they do not unknowingly fall into spiritual decline. This book will also bring comfort to believers and help them grow in holiness.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Owen (1616-1683) was an English Puritan theologian and a leading figure of the Nonconformist movement. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in England and as counselor and chaplain to Oliver Cromwell's army.
Owen was one of the most learned and active Puritans in 17th century England, accomplished in both doctrine and practical theology, and the author of more than fifty works, including The Glory of Christ, The Mortification of Sin, and The Temptation.
Generations and Continents Apart
Editor’s Note
Prefatory Note
Introductory Essay
Preface
CHAPTER 1
The Nature of indwelling sin in believers, treated by the apostle in Rom 7.21;Illustrated.
CHAPTER 2
Indwelling sin is a law — In what sense it is called a law — What kind of law it is — An inward effective principle called a law — The power of sin evinced from that.
CHAPTER 3
The seat or subject of the law of sin is the heart — What is meant by that — Properties of the heart as possessed by sin: unsearchable and deceitful — What that deceit arises from — Improvement of these considerations.
CHAPTER 4
Indwelling sin is enmity against God — Its power comes from this — It allows no peace or rest — It is against God himself — It acts in aversion to God, with a propensity to evil — It is universal — To all of God — In all of the soul — Constantly.
CHAPTER 5
The nature of sin further revealed as it is enmity against God — Its aversion to all good is opened — The means to prevent its effects prescribed.
CHAPTER 6
The work of this enmity against God, by opposition — First, It lusts — What the lusting of sin consists of — It surprises the soul — Our readiness to close with temptations — Secondly, Its fighting and warring — 1. In rebellion against the law of grace — 2. In assaulting the soul.
CHAPTER 7
The captivating power of indwelling sin, what it consists of — The prevalence of sin, from itself, from temptation — The rage and madness that is in sin.
CHAPTER 8
Indwelling sin is proved powerful from its deceit — Proved to be deceitful — The general nature of deceit — Jas 1.14, opened — How the mind is drawn from its duty by the deceitfulness of sin — The principal duties of the mind in our obedience — The ways and means by which it is turned from it.
CHAPTER 9
The deceit of sin in drawing the mind away from a due attendance to especial duties of obedience, instanced in meditation and prayer.
CHAPTER 10
The deceit of sin, in drawing the mind away from its attendance to particular duties, further revealed — Several things required in the mind of believers with respect to particular duties of obedience — The actings of sin, in a way of deceit, to divert the mind from them.
CHAPTER 11
The working of sin by deceit to entangle the affections — The ways by which it is done — Means of their prevention.
CHAPTER 12
The conception of sin through its deceit — What it consists in — The consent of the will to sin — The nature of it — The ways and means by which it is obtained — Other advantages made use of by the deceit of sin — Ignorance — Error.
CHAPTER 13
Several ways by which the bringing forth of conceived Sin is obstructed.
CHAPTER 14
The power of sin further demonstrated by the effects it has had in the lives of professors — First, in actual sins — Secondly, in habitual declines.
CHAPTER 15
Decays in the degrees of grace, which are caused by indwelling sin — The ways by which indwelling sin prevails to this purpose.
CHAPTER 16
The strength of indwelling sin manifested from its power and effects in unregenerate persons.
CHAPTER 17
The strength of sin evidenced by its resistance to the power of the law.
ESIN：B11598972861
出版时间：2024
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语言文字：英文
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