How to take care of your spirit

The author says: “To call men (and women) to abandon the wicked condition of their heart and mind; to recognize the sin and danger of it; to direct them to the proper methods and means for abandoning it; to furnish their thoughts and affections with better objects, and to discover and exhort the exercise of such means (which is indispensable for all believers if they long for life and peace) is part of what the following volume does.” “Of all the evils I have seen in the days of my pilgrimage,” he wrote, “there is none so grievous as the public contempt of the principal mysteries of the gospel by those who call themselves Christians.”

The Grace and Duty of being Spiritually Minded was published in 1681, after an illness that led Owen to spend his time meditating on the importance of spirituality. Here we offer a compendium of Owen's volume in a simpler version.