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PRYWELL.
'Search me, O God, and know my heart.'-- _David_.
'Let a man examine himself.'-- _Paul_.
'Look to yourselves.'-- _John_.
'Know thyself.'-- _Apollo_.
The year 1668 saw the publication of one of the deepest books in the whole world, Dr.John Owen's _Remainders of Indwelling Sin in Believers_.
The heart-searching depth; the clear, fearless, humbling truth, the intense spirituality, and the massive and masculine strength of John Owen's book have all combined to make it one of the acknowledged masterpieces of the great Puritan school.

Had John Owen's style been at all equal to his great learning, to the depth and the grasp of his mind, and to the lofty holiness of his life, John Owen would have stood in the very foremost and selectest rank of apostolical and evangelical theologians.

But in all his books Owen labours under the fatal drawback of a bad style.

A fine style, a style like that of Hooker, or Taylor, or Bunyan, or Howe, or Leighton, or Law, is such a winning introduction to their works and such an abiding charm and spell.