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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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It is no small Evidence that the Day of the Lord is nigh at hand, because the Virgins are all slumbering. And it is not ⟨p. 46⟩unlikely that Judgment will begin at the House of God. All Flesh hath corrupted its ways; and therefore the End of all, as to its present Condition, is at hand.
It is no small Evidence that the Day of the Lord is nigh at hand, because the Virgins are all slumbring. And it is not ⟨p. 46⟩unlikely that Judgment will begin at the House of God. All Flesh hath corrupted its ways; and therefore the End of all, as to its present Condition, is at hand.
Fourthly, It is so, when the Sins of a People are accompanied with the highest Aggravations that they are capable of in this World; and those arise from hence, when they are committed against Warnings, Mercies and Patience. These comprise the ways and means which God in his Goodness and Wisdom useth to reclaim and recall men from their Sins: And by whomsoever they are despised, they treasure up unto themselves wrath against the Day of wrath, and the Revelation of the righteous Judgments of God, Rom. 2. 4, 5. What can save a People by whom the only Remedies of their Relief are despised? What Warnings and Previous Judgments we have had in this Nation, shall be afterwards spoken unto. That there hath been no effect, no fruit of them, is evident unto all. Their Language is, Except ye repent ye shall perish. Who hath complied with the Calls of God herein? What Reformation hath been engaged in on this account? Have we not turned a deaf ear to all the Calls of God? ⟨p. 47⟩who hath mourned, who hath trembled, who hath sought for an Entrance into the Chambers of Providence in the Day of Indignation? By some these Warnings have been despised and scoffed at, by some put off unto others, as their Concernment, not their own, by the most neglected, or turned into matter of common Discourse, without laying them to heart.