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An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with…
An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful churches and nations, or, The only way to deliver a sinful nation from utter ruin by impendent judgments, in a discourse on the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, Luk. 13, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 / by John Owen.An humble testimony unto the goodness and severity of God in his dealing with sinful churches and nations, or, The only way to deliver a sinful nation from utter ruine by impendent judgments, in a discourse on the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, Luk. 13, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 / by John Owen.
London: printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1681
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In a successive continuation of previous Judgments on impenitent sinners, there is an incontrollable Evidence given of the certainty of that final Judgments which all Mankind shall be called unto. So the Apostle proves it, and intimates that it is a foolish thing, the effect of obstinacy in Sin, if men do not learn the certain Determination and Approach of the Eternal Judgment, from the Drowning of the Old World, the Conflagration of Sodom, with the like Instances of Divine Severity, 2. Pet. 2. 3.
In a successive continuation of previous Judgments on impenitent sinners, there is an incontroulable Evidence given of the certainty of that final Judgments which all Mankind shall be called unto. So the Apostle proves it, and intimates that it is a foolish thing, the effect of obstinacy in Sin, if men do not learn the certain Determination and Approach of the Eternal Judgment, from the Drowning of the Old World, the Conflagration of Sodom, with the like Instances of Divine Severity, 2. Pet. 2. 3.
My present Enquiry hereon, is, what is our own Concernment in these things, what are we for our own Good to learn by the Blessed Instruction given us by our Lord Jesus Christ, in his Interpretation of the ⟨p. 32⟩Providential Occurrences mentioned in the Text.
And this I shall manifest by an impartial Enquiry into the things ensuing.