Puritan John Owen wrote The Mortification of Sin⁂ to address the "obvious difficulty that most professing Christians have in dealing with the temptations that surround them" (page vii), and this abridged version was published to make it "more accessible" to contemporary Christians.

Based primarily on Romans 8:13 ("For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live."), Owen fleshes out his thesis:

Read more...