The enemy within -- The law of sin -- Sin in the heart -- Enmity against God -- Aversion to everything good -- Lusts at war with God -- Captive to an enraged foe -- The deceitfulness of sin -- Prayer and meditations undermine sin -- The mind on guard against sin -- Keepign the heart -- The yielding of the will -- God's bridle on sin -- Sin breaking out -- Blocking the springs of grace -- 'That inbred traitor, sin' -- What the law can and cannot do.
Here is a guide to knowing our enemy, a field-manual for the lifelong war Christ's soldiers must wage against the sin that remains in them after conversion. Like an experienced general, Owen sets out the strategy and tactics of indwelling sin with unrivalled insight and clarity.--Reformers Bookshop.