John Owen On The Christian Life James M. Garretson the greatest of New Testament

the greatest of New Testament Epistles

The Life of John Brown is the story of an orphaned shepherd boy who rose to become the revered minister of Haddington in south-east Scotland and the theological professor of his denomination

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he nevertheless sought not only that the minds of his readers might be brought into immediate contact with the mind of the Spirit' but that their whole being might be resigned to the empire of the Word of God'

he has a literary force and ability to stimulate thought which is distinctive

John Owen On The Christian Life James M. Garretson the greatest of New TestamentJohn Owen has long been recognized by evangelicals as one of the greatest of all English speaking theological classics. Like Augustine, whom he so admired, Owens thinking touched both the depths of sin and the heights of grace. Many of his readers have come away from reading him on such themes as temptation, or indwelling sin, feeling that Owen knew them through and through. The truth is that Owen had come by intensive and constant study of both