treatise on the Person of Christ; Ryland pronounced his Latin work on the Origin and Progress of Theology “incomparable,”—“the greatest work ever written by a British divine;” Dr Lindsay Alexander speaks of his work on the Holy Spirit as his “master-work;” Mr Wilberforce especially recommended his treatise on the Mortification of Sin. There is reason to believe, however, that Owen himself regarded the Exposition as the production by which he had rendered the most service to the cause of divine truth,
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