"Try yourself by this also: When you are by sin driven to make a stand, so that you must either serve it and rush at the command of it into folly, like the horse into the battle, or make head against it to suppress it, what do you say to your soul? What do you expostulate (discuss earnestly) with yourself? Is this all -- "Hell will be the end of this course; vengeance will meet with me and find me out"? It is time for you to look about you; evil lies at the door [Gen 4:7]. Paul's main argument to evince that sin shall not have dominion over believers is that they "are not under the law, but under grace" (Rom. 6:14). If your contendings against sin be all on legal accounts, from legal principles and motive, what assurance can you attain unto that sin shall not have dominion over you, which will be your ruin? ...What gospel principles do not, legal motives cannot do."
Owen, John, Kelly M. Kapic, and Justin Taylor. "Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers." Overcoming Sin & Temptation. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2006. Print.
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