“All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. Men, as the apostle intimates, may attempt this work on other principles, by means and advantages administered on other accounts, as they always have done, and do: but, saith he, ‘This is the work of the Spirit; by him alone is it to be wrought, and by no other power is it to be brought about.’ Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.” – John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin, Chapter 1
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