Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work?
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.
from John Owen's The Mortification of Sin
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John Owen on the Arminian View of the Death of Christ
The merit of the death of Christ being to them as an ointment in a box, that hath neither virtue nor power to act or reach out its own application unto particulars, being only set out in the gospel to the view of all, that those who will, by their own strength, lay hold on it and apply it to themselves may be healed.
from John Owen's The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
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John Owen: For Whom Did Christ Die?
The Puritan theologian, John Owen, considering the design of the atonement stated the following in his classic work, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ:
God imposed his wrath due unto, and Christ underwent the pains of hell for, either:
- All the sins of all men, or
- All the sins of some men, or
- Some sins of all men
If the last, some sins of all men, then have all men some sins to answer for, and so shall no man be saved; for if God enter into judgment with us, though it were with all mankind for one sin, no flesh should be justified in his sight: “If the Lord should mark iniquities, who should stand?” Ps. 130:3.
If the second, that is it which we affirm, that Christ in their stead and room suffered for all the sins of all the elect in the world.
If the first, why, then, are not all freed from the punishment of all their sins? You will say, “Because of their unbelief; they will not believe.” But this unbelief, is it a sin, or not? If not, why should they be punished for it? If it be, then Christ underwent the punishment due to it, or not. If so, then why must that hinder them more than their other sins for which he died from partaking of the fruit of his death? If he did not [die for that sin of unbelief], then he did not die for all their sins.
The Works of John Owen: The Death of Death in the Death of Christ (Book 1, Chapter 3), Originally published in 1650.
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