Owen: in a swoon

Saturday, June 20, 2026
Meditation:
    And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
    —Mark 4:9 (KJV)
Quotation:
    I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this,—because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon, though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.
    ... John Owen (1616-1683), “Several Practical Cases of Conscience Resolved” [1721], in Works of John Owen, v. IX, New York: R. Carter, 1851, Discourse IX, p. 388 (see the book)
    See also Mark 4:9; 10:26-27; Joel 2:21; Matt. 19:25-26; Luke 18:26-27; Acts 2:21; 1 John 2:15; Jude 1:22-23
Quiet time reflection:
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