Puritan Wisdom

“I say, then, that mortification is the work of believers, and believers only.  To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive and will live.” -- John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers, 37, in The Works of John Owen, Volume 6:  Temptation and Sin.