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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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1. Because such Times are perilous through Temptations from the abounding of the Lusts of Men, in all Uncleanness and Wickedness. So the Apostle states it, 2. Tim. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. If any think they are free from Danger, because as yet they feel no Evil, whilst the Lusts of Men professing Christian Religion, visibly and openly ⟨p. 8⟩abound and rage in the World, they will be mistaken.
1. Because such Times are perillous through Temptations from the abounding of the Lusts of Men, in all Uncleanness and Wickedness. So the Apostle states it, 2. Tim. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. If any think they are free from Danger, because as yet they feel no Evil, whilst the Lusts of Men professing Christian Religion, visibly and openly ⟨p. 8⟩abound and rage in the World, they will be mistaken.
2. Though Destruction do not immediately befall them, yet when they have passed the time of Divine Patience, designing their Reformation; they shall precipitate themselves into Bloody Abominations as did the Church of the Jews.
3. Judgment shall at length overtake them, and God will revenge on them the Sins and Provocations, especially the Persecutions and Blood of them that went before them, and lead them into their Apostasy. So when he shall come to destroy Mystical Babylon, or the Antichristian Church-State, it is said, that in her was found the Blood of the Prophets, and of Saints, and of all that were slain upon the Earth,