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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
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3. Open Contempt and Reproach of the Spirit of God in all his Divine Operations, is another Sin of the same dreadful Abode. Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us, that he who speaks against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this World, neither in the World to come, Mat. 12. 32. That is, those who persist in opposing or reproaching the holy Ghost, and his dispensation and Operations under the New Testament, shall not escape vengeance and punishment even in this World; for so it befell that Generation unto whom he spake. For continuing to do despite unto the Spirit of Grace, wrath at length came upon them even in this World unto the utmost, which is the sense of the place. Now scarcely where the Name of Christ was known, did this Iniquity more abound, than it doth at this day amongst us, For not only is the Divine Person of the holy Spirit by some denied, and the substance of the preaching and writing of many is to oppose all his peculiar Operations but they are all made a Scoff, a Derision, and a Reproach openly and on all Occasions every day. Especially as he is a Spirit of Regeneration and Supplication, he is the object of Multiplied sober Blasphemies. This Iniquity will be revenged.
3. Open Contempt and Reproach of the Spirit of God in all his Divine Operations, is another Sin of the same dreadfull Abode. Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us, that he who speaks against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this World, neither in the World to come, Mat. 12. 32. That is, those who persist in opposing or reproaching the holy Ghost, and his dispensation and Operations under the New Testament, shall not escape vengeance and punishment even in this World; for so it befell that Generation unto whom he spake. For continuing to do despight unto the Spirit of Grace, wrath at length came upon them even in this World unto the utmost, which is the sense of the place. Now scarcely where the Name of Christ was known, did this Iniquity more abound, than it doth at this day amongst us, For not only is the Divine Person of the holy Spirit by some denied, and the substance of the preaching and writing of many is to oppose all his peculiar Operations but they are all made a Scoff, a Derision, and a Reproach openly and on all Occasions every day. Especially as he is a Spirit of Regeneration and Supplication, he is the object of Multiplyed sober Blasphemies. This Iniquity will be revenged.