John Owen Quotes:<\/p>\n
As in the case of Job, God takes a man whom he hath blessed with choice of blessings, in the midst of a course of obedience and close walking with himself, when he expected to die in his nest, and to see good all his days;\u2013ruins him in a moment ; blasts his name, that he who was esteemed a choice saint, shall not be able to deliver himself from the common esteem of a hypocrite ; slays his children ; takes away his rest, health, and every thing that is desirable to him. This amazes the soul ; it knows not what God is doing, nor why he pleads with it in so much bitterness. A man that either is, or may fall into such a condition, will find that he will never be able to walk with God in it, without humbling himself to the law of his providence.<\/p>\n
~John Owen<\/p>\n
from a sermon entitled Of Walking Humbly With God, volume 9 of Works, page 115<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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