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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. Our Blessed Saviour mentions Abel, and Zechariah Particularly. This Zechariah, called the son of Barachias, was undoubtedly the Zechariah mentioned 2 Chr. ⟨p. 6⟩24. 20, 21, 22. For concerning those two alone, it is observed, That the one dead, and the other dying, cried for Vengeance. So God testifieth of the Blood of Abel, Gen. 4. 10. And Zechariah when he died, said, The Lord look upon it, and require it. Hence the Apostle affirms, That Abel being dead, yet speaks, Heb 11. 4. that is, his Blood did so, it did so then, and it spake for Vengeance, as he intimates, Ch. 12, 24. It did so before and until the Destruction of Jerusalem: For in the Rejection and absolute Destruction of that Apostatized Church and People, the Blood of all that suffered under the Old Testament, was expiated; Abel's Blood cries no more; nor doth God look any more on the Blood of Zechariah, to require it.
3. Our Blessed Saviour mentions Abel, and Zechariah Particularly. This Zechariah, called the son of Barachias, was undoubtedly the Zechariah mentioned 2 Chr. ⟨p. 6⟩24. 20, 21, 22. For concerning those two alone, it is observed, That the one dead, and the other dying, cryed for Vengeance. So God testifieth of the Blood of Abel, Gen. 4. 10. And Zechariah when he died, said, The Lord look upon it, and require it. Hence the Apostle affirms, That Abel being dead, yet speaks, Heb 11. 4. that is, his Blood did so, it did so then, and it spake for Vengance, as he intimates, Ch. 12, 24. It did so before and until the Destruction of Hierusalem: For in the Rejection and absolute Destruction of that Apostatized Church and People, the Blood of all that suffered under the Old Testament, was expiated; Abel's Blood cries no more; nor doth God look any more on the Blood of Zechariah, to require it.