Treasures of John Owen Box Set
What is the legacy that John Owen leaves us? The Treasures of John Owen Box Set includes 10 titles in 5 volumes, presenting the best and most beloved works by John Owen.
Beautiful Books
The books are: The Spirit and the Church, Duties of Christian Fellowship, Communion With God, The Mortification of Sin, The Holy Spirit, Temptation: Resisted and Repulsed, The Glory of Christ, Searching Our Hearts in Difficult Times, Indwelling Sin in Believers, and Apostasy from the Gospel. These are beautiful books that are given the heirloom treatment, with gold trim and dark green covers.
The premium quality of this set is quite fitting for Owen’s works. Two books in particular stand out in these formats that read differently in a hardback. Duties of Christin Fellowship includes questions for consideration/discussion, serving as a guide for journaling and interacting with the text. The question/answer sections of Searching Our Hearts in Difficult Times has a reference-quality flavor that is elevated in this arrangement.
Inspiring and Encouraging
The handsome set features Smyth Sewn cloth binding, ribbon markers, and is packaged with a 32-page booklet introduction from Sinclair Ferguson. Ferguson gives a masterful overview of Owen’s life with a look into the background of the books. I was most interested to learn how Owen’s sermons were preserved by way of shorthand writing, as well as how a man named Robert Law did his own unsolicited work of starting the Puritan Paperback series by simplifying and making Owen’s sermons easy to read.
The books are abridged and modernized for today’s readers. This set is labeled as a “library” and rightly so, for these books are worth keeping and revisiting. There are riches to mine on every page. There is glory to be seen, and sin to be mortified. This box set is a leaves a legacy of John Owen, representing a Puritan tradition that still inspires and encourages us today.
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