On August 23, 1683--the day before he died--John Owen dictated a final letter to his friend Charles Fleetwood. Part of it reads:
I
am going to Him whom my soul hath loved, or rather who hath loved me
with an everlasting love; which is the whole ground of all my
consolation. The passage is very irksome and wearysome through strong
pains of various sorts which are all issued in an intermitting fever . .
. I am leaving the ship of the church in a storm, but whilst the great
Pilot is in it the loss of a poor under-rower will be inconsiderable.
--quoted in Sinclair Ferguson,
John Owen on the Christian Life (Banner of Truth, 1987), 18
On August 23, 1683--the day before he died--John Owen dictated a final letter to his friend Charles Fleetwood. Part of it reads:
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