Puritan brevity

I picked up Overcoming Sin and Temptation last night before I went to bed, and was amazed again at John Owen's characteristically Puritan ability to pack so much into one sentence. Here is just one of the highlights:

To kill sin is the work of living me; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live. (p83)