This edition was very easy to read. Owen's writing tends to be systematic in its explorations of a subject, as he doesn't want to miss a thing, and this book was no exception. But it was still helpful and searching, and stirred me up to pray on multiple occasions when I felt cold in heart. ( )

No livro “A mortificação do pecado”, ele nos apresenta princípios bíblicos que são indispensáveis para a nossa santificação e nos convida a avaliarmos nossa vida espiritual. O autor explica a mortificação através de uma abordagem que ensina a natureza do pecado, a necessidade de lutar contra ele e o método para fazer isso.

A great little book that will make you think differently about the sin that so easily entangles us causes us to not look to the Jesus and the finished work on the cross. ( )

I'm thankful for this abridgment, easing my way into this difficult but enduringly helpful classic. I plan to re-read it in the future. It's a how-to manual for an exceedingly difficult procedure (killing sin) that we're constantly and insidiously bending away from; these short pages show you how and convince you towards action. Praise God for His sanctification work in His people! ( )

Quotes:

(37) Even when we think that a lust is dead because it is quiet, we must labour to give it new wounds and new blows every day.

(43) Mortification is not the present duty of unregenerate men. God calls them to conversion first.

(50) To seek mortification only because a sin troubles us proceeds from self-love.

(57) ...to satisfy your conscience when your heart is convicted of sin is a desperate device of the heart that is in love with sin.

(67) But consider in your mind that the guilt of sinning against grace is more serious than if you did not have any grace at all.

(87) We need to be exercised with such meditations as will fill us at all times with self-abasement and thoughts of our own vileness.

(103) If men are wounded by sin, disturbed and perplexed, and realize that there is no remedy for them except in the mercy of God and through the blood of Christ; and if such look to Him and His covenant promises, and upon this basis quiet their hearts, believing that it will indeed be well with them, and that God will be gracious to them -- and yet they do not detest with utter hatred the sin in question -- this is to heal themselves and not to be healed by God. ( )