Owens on Temptation

After Sunday's message I was moderately rebuked for not listing John Owen's works on sin, particularly On the Mortification of Sin in my resources.

So here they are:

• John Owens, Of the Mortification of Sin — this edition includes the classic introduction by J. I. Packer.
• Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor, Overcoming Sin and Temptation: Three Classic Works by John Owen. This edition includes Of the Mortification of Sin, Of Temptation: the Nature and Power of It, and Indwelling Sin. This is essentially the complete text of Owens, with added footnotes for difficult vocabulary, integrated outlines of the books, and modernized punctuation. This is currently in my book bag — which is supposed to mean its on my "next to read" list.
  

And, as an added bonus, here is the well-quoted statement that Owens made about sin:

Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until he be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so will he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.…Mortification abates [sin's] force, but doth not change its nature. Grace changeth the nature of man, but nothing can change the nature of sin....Destroyed it may be, it shall be, but cured it cannot be....If it be not overcome and destroyed, it will overcome and destroy the soul. And herein lies no small part of its power.…It is never quiet, [whether it is] conquering [or] conquered.…Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.