Owen on Watch! Beware!

Within the last couple of years a great service was done by Kelly Kapic and Justin Taylor. They simplified the sentence structure and provided detailed outlines for 3 of John Owen's classic works. (Owen is awesome, but he lived in the 1600's... so he wrote sentences that are a page long! So only Stephen and Anna Addcox are literate enough to read him unfiltered!)

Here is an outlined section of his book on Overcoming Temptation, particularly the place where he discusses WATCHING.

III. Watch (p. 197)
A. Watch the seasons wherein men usually do “enter into temptations” (p. 197)
1. A season of unusual outward prosperity (p. 197)
2. A time of the slumber of grace, of neglect in communion with God, of formality in
duty (p. 198)
3. A season of great spiritual enjoyments (p. 199)
4. A season of self-confidence (p. 200)
(Chapter 7)
B. Watch the heart itself (p. 201)
1. Labor to know your own heart (p. 201)
2. Watch against all that is apt to entangle your natural temper or provoke your
corruption (p. 203)
3. Lay in provision in store against the approaching of any temptation (p. 203)
4. In the first approach of any temptation, as we are all tempted, these directions
following are also suited to carry on the work of watching, which we are in the
pursuit of: (p. 205)
a) Be always awake, that you may have an early discovery of your temptation
(p. 205)
b) Consider the aim and tendency of the temptation (p. 205)
c) Meet your temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ
on the cross (p. 206)
d) If you have been surprised by temptation and entangled unawares, what
should you do? (p. 206)
(1) Beseech God again and again that it may “depart from you” (p. 206)
(2) Fly to Christ, in a peculiar manner, as he was tempted, and beg of him to
give you succor in this “needful time of trouble” (p. 207)
(3) Look to him who has promised deliverance (p. 207)
(4) Consider where the temptation has made its entrance, and by what means,
and with all speed make up the breach (p. 208)