Overcoming Temptation and Sin

It was Owen's earnest regard that his readers should be brought into a condition of safety against the wiles of the devil,

to break the force of his warnings and entreaties by ingenious

speculations and irrelevant learning. Not merely in the warm appeals

interspersed with his expositions, but in the patient care with which

no nook of the heart is left unsearched, does the deep solicitude of

Owen for the spiritual welfare of his readers appear. To one who reads

the treatise in the spirit with which the author wrote it,--simply that

he may judge his own heart, and know what temptation means, and be

fully on his guard against it