# “Deep labouring with God” by John Owen

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- Published: 2008-07-29T17:59:11-05:00
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“Clear shining from God must be at the bottom of deep labouring with God. What is
the reason that so many in our days set their hands to the plough, and looked back
again? — begin to serve Providence in great things, but cannot finish? — give over
in the heat of the day? They never had any such revelation of the mind of God upon
their spirits, such a discovery of His excellence, as might serve for a bottom of
such undertakings.”

–John Owen, as quoted in Peter Barraclough, _John Owen (1616-1683)_ (London: Independent
Press Ltd., 1961), 6.

[HT: [Michael A.G. Haykin](http://www.andrewfullercenter.org/)]

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