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John Owen
John Owen
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
ROMANS 6:14
The heart will be ruled by something. And we can be certain that sin’s purpose is not merely to tempt people but to reign over their hearts. Considering this, John Owen helps us understand what it means for sin to have dominion and discern whether it has such a mastery over us. More significantly, Owen points us to the power of grace to break sin’s dominion and set up a dominion of its own.
“Though sin and grace can coinhabit the same soul, either the Spirit or sin must hold dominion there. This marks the difference between being united to Christ and killing indwelling sin, and living under sin as a cruel taskmaster that will ultimately kill us. Adapting John Owen’s excellent Trinity-shaped counsel, this readable volume brings his methodically logical, spiritually rich counsel to bear on modern readers. This book is an excellent tool both for encouraging Christians as they walk with God and for non-Christians to awake to understanding who they really are and what they really need.”
Ryan M. McGraw,Morton H. Smith Professor of Systematic Theology, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
JOHN OWEN (1616-1683) was an English Puritan who served as vice-chancellor of Oxford University and pastor of congregations in Coggeshall and London.