“I am persuaded there are very few that
apostatize from a profession of any continuance, such as our days abound withal,
but there door of entrance into the folly of backsliding was either some great
and notorious sin that bloody their consciences, tainted their affections, and
intercepted all delight of having anything more to do with God; or else it was a
course of neglected private duties, arising from a weariness of contending
against that powerful adversary which they found themselves unto them” – John
Owen, The Nature and Power…of…Indwelling
Sin…, in The Works of John Owen, Volume 6:
Temptation and Sin, 184.
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