The Doctrine of Justification By Faith, Through the Imputation of the Righteousness of Christ #1

Owen's work on justification has long been considered one of the classic Protestant treatments. We are thus confident his writing will, by the blessing of the blessed Spirit of grace, be an effectual antidote to the poisonous perversions of the Man of Sin (2 Thes. 2:3) -- while also helping to obliterate the specious distinctions and definitions invented by the Papists to adumbrate the plain truths of Scripture concerning justification.

More than for historical or polemical purposes however, Owen's treatise should capture the attention and careful study of the faithful because it is written for them: the lovers of Christ and His truths.

His chief aim was not to address those who opposed the truth (though in handling the subject he overwhelmingly vanquishes them). Rather, Owen writes,

'I shall assure them that, in the handling of it, from first to last, I have had no other design but only to inquire diligently into the divine revelation of that way, and those means, with the causes of them, whereby the conscience of a distressed sinner may attain assured peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ...'

The Covenanter David Steele, in his classic work, Notes on the Apocalypse, calls John Owen, "that prince of divines among English Dissenters" (see http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14485/14485-h/14485-h.htm for a free copy of Steele's Notes on the Apocalypse).

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