If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.
John OwenIf a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
John OwenI 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 (faint)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,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.
John Owen