Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

by John Owen – February 14th, 2019 Chapter 6 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS” Continued 2). Some lusts more discernible     Some lusts are far more sensible and discernible in their violent actings than others. Paul puts a difference between uncleanness(51) and all other sins: “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

by John Owen – February 11th, 2019 http://www.ChapelLibrary.org •  chapel@mountzion.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued       5. Not to Conquer Sin Occasionally b. When in some affliction     In a time of some judgment, calamity, or pressing affliction, the heart is taken up with thoughts and contrivances of flying from the present … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

by John Owen – February 9th, 2019  www.ChapelLibrary.org •  chapel@mountzion.org  Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued    4.  Not to Divert a Sin A sin is not mortified when it is only diverted. Simon Magus(42) for a season left his sorceries; but his covetousness and ambition, which had set him on his work, remained still, … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

by John Owen – February 8th, 2019 http://www.ChapelLibrary.org •  chapel@mountzion.org   Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued      3. Not to Improve a Quiet Nature The mortification of sin consists not in the improvement(41)  of a quiet, sedate nature. Some men have an advantage by their natural constitution so far as that they are not … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

by John Owen – February 7th, 2019 http://www.ChapelLibrary.org •  chapel@mountzion.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued  2.Not to Conceal a Sin I think I do not need to say it is not the dissimulation(40) of a sin. When a man on some out-ward respects forsakes the practice of any sin, men perhaps may look on … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

by John Owen – February 4th, 2019  chapel@mountzion.orghttp://www.ChapelLibrary.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” These things being premised, I come to my principal intention: handling some questions or practical cases that present themselves in this business of mortification of sin in believers. The first, which is the head of all the rest, and … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin

by John Owen – February 2nd, 2019   chapel@mountzion.orghttp://www.ChapelLibrary.org Chapter 4 “USEFULNESS OF MORTIFICATION” Continued c. Our peace As to our peace, as there is nothing that has any evidence of sincerity without mortification, so I know nothing that has such an evidence of sincerity in it as there is in mortification— which is no … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin