A53702:14
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.
This shall be our Testimony, and our Peace, in whatever may ⟨image 6⟩befall us in this World.
Let us not satisfy our selves, that our Congregations are in so good a Posture, as that they may continue for our Lives; and so be like ill Tenants, who care not if their Houses fall upon the Expiration of the Term of their Interest in them. That Reparation is required of us, which may make them serve for succeeding Generations.
Let us not satisfie our selves, that our Congregations are in so good a Posture, as that they may continue for our Lives; and so be like ill Tenants, who care not if their Houses fall upon the Expiration of the Term of their Interest in them. That Reparation is required of us, which may make them serve for succeeding Generations.
And when any Church is so in observant of its own Decays, as to be negligent of Endeavours for proportionable Reformation, if after a while, any will deliver their own Souls, it must be by a Departure from them that hate to be Reformed.