John Owen (1616–1683) was the foremost Puritan theologian of seventeenth-century England. A child prodigy at Oxford, he became dean of Christ Church and vice-chancellor of the university under Cromwell, while preaching and writing works of great depth. The Mortification of Sin, Communion with God, and his massive exposition of Hebrews — many of them in our library — still define Puritan divinity at its most searching and exact.
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A posthumous treatise by John Owen, published in 1688, on the competing reigns of sin and grace in the human heart. Owen examines how sin seeks dominion over the believer, how grace establishes its throne through Christ, and why the one rule must displace the other. It is a compact companion to his better-known works on mortification and indwelling sin.