Apostasy from the Gospel
by John Owen
A searching study of how professing Christians, churches, and whole cultures drift away from the gospel not only through open heresy but through gradual decay in doctrine, holiness, and worship. Owen anatomizes the causes of this defection and prescribes the means of prevention and recovery, insisting the danger is real enough that no age can safely ignore it.
Based on The Nature and Causes of Apostasy from the Gospel (1676), Works of John Owen, vol. 7
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Owen
“No unholy person hath any ground to expect the least advantage by the gospel, here or hereafter.”
“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
“He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.”
“Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.”
“Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.”
“Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.”
“A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.”
“To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead, sin is alive, and will live.”
“All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.”
“Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes.”
