THE

WORKS

OF

JOHN OWEN, D. D.

EDITED

BY THOMAS RUSSELL, M.A.

WITH

MEMOIRS OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS,

BY WILLIAM ORME.

VOL. XIII.

CONTAINING

THE NATURE, POWER, DECEIT, AND PREVALENCY,
OF THE REMAINDERS OF INDWELLING SIN IN BELIEVERS; AND

OPONHMA TOY CINEYMATOZ; OR,
THE GRACE AND DUTY OF BEING SPIRITUALLY MINDED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR RICHARD BAYNES, 28, PATERNOSTER ROW:
And sold by J. Parker, Oxford; Deighton and Sons, Cambridge ; D. Brown,
Waugh and Innes, and H.S. Baynes and Co. Edinburgh ; Chalmers and
Collins, and M. Ogle, Glasgow ; M. Keene, and R. M. l'ims, Dublin.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME.

THE NATURE, POWER, DECEIT, AND PREVALENCY, OF THE REMAINDERS OF

INDWELLING SIN IN BELIEVERS.

Page

The Preface

CHAP..

Indwelling sin in believers treated of by the apostle, Rom. vii. 21. The place

explained

CHAP. II.

Indwelling sin a law. In what sense it is so called. What kind of law it is.

An inward effective principle called a law. The power of sin thence evinced 12

CHAP. III.

The seat or subject of the law of sin. The heart; what meant thereby. Pro-

perties of the heart as possessed by sin. Unsearchable. Deceitful. Whence

that deceit ariseth. Improvements of these considerations

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CHAP. IV.

Indwelling sin enmity against God. Thence its power. Admits of no peace

nor rest. Is against God himself. Acts itself in aversation from God; and

propensity to evil. Is universal. To all of God. In all of the soul. Constant. 28

CHAP. V.

Nature of sin farther discovered as it is enmity against God. Its aversation from

all good opened. Means to prevent the effects of it prescribed ............ 35

CHAP. VI.

The work of this enmity against God, by way of opposition. First, it lusteth.

Wherein the lusting of sin consisteth. Its surprising of the soul. Readiness

to close with temptations. Its fighting and warring. 1. In rebellion against

the law of grace. 2. In assaulting the soul

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