reaganmarsh
Puritan Board Senior
John Owen dictated these words to a friend two days before his death:
"I am going to him whom my soul hath loved, or rather hath loved me with an everlasting love; which is the whole ground of all my consolation.
The passage is very irksome and wearisome through strong pain of various sorts which are all issued in an intermitting fever...
I am leaving the ship of the church in a storm, but while the great Pilot is in it, the loss of a poore under-rower will be inconsiderable.
Live and pray and hope and waite patiently and doe not despair; the promise stands invincible that he will never leave thee nor forsake thee."
--Peter Toon, The Correspondence of John Owen, p. 174.
"I am going to him whom my soul hath loved, or rather hath loved me with an everlasting love; which is the whole ground of all my consolation.
The passage is very irksome and wearisome through strong pain of various sorts which are all issued in an intermitting fever...
I am leaving the ship of the church in a storm, but while the great Pilot is in it, the loss of a poore under-rower will be inconsiderable.
Live and pray and hope and waite patiently and doe not despair; the promise stands invincible that he will never leave thee nor forsake thee."
--Peter Toon, The Correspondence of John Owen, p. 174.
