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Knowing Sin: Seeing a Neglected Doctrine Through the Eyes of the Puritans is unavailable, but you can change that!

The first rule of combat is: know your enemy. We don’t talk a lot about sin these days. But maybe we should. The Puritans sure did—because they understood sin’s deceptive power and wanted to root it out of their lives. Shouldn’t we want the same? Though many books have been written on the “doctrine of sin,” few are as practical and applicable as this one. In Knowing Sin, Mark Jones puts his...

should know that a proper understanding of grace requires a thorough grasp of sin. A distorted, weak view of sin will lead to a disfigured, anemic, and unproductive theology. Thomas Watson (c. 1620–86) well said, “The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.”2 Some of the great displays of both God’s character and His grace are revealed in the context of sin. For example, Genesis 3, Exodus 33, Psalm 51, Isaiah 53, and Romans 3 present some of clearest scriptural
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