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Johnnie_Burgess said:
Yes, his works are worth the effort. But you might want to start out with others and work you way up to him.
I agree that for most Edwards and Owen are difficult reading. But just imagine, that the sermons we have extant today of Edwards were preached to a congregation of mostly farmers and people not nearly as educated as we are today. This is a truly humbling thought, is it not? With all our education; high school, college and graduate schools, we still cannot equal the comprehension which those poor deprived individuals of the 18th century had. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/drop.gif" alt="" /> This doesn't speak well for the modern church and its preaching/teaching either.

For those that have a really difficult time reading John Owen, the Banner of Truth has been publishing a series of volumes from his Works which are "interpreted" (abridged) <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/giggle.gif" alt="" /> and rewritten in modern English. A couple are: The Mortification of Sin (from vol. 6) and "The Spirit and the Church" (from vol. 4). I believe there are a total of 4 of these abridgments done thus far in paperback.

In His Grace,

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