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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. 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, Rev. 18. 24. Even the Blood of Saints, that was shed by Pagan-Rome, shall be avenged on Antichristian Rome, after she hath espoused the Cause, and walked in the way of the other, justifying in her own Practice, what they had done,
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 Apostacy. 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, Rev. 18. 24. Even the Blood of Saints, that was shed by Pagan-Rome, shall be avenged on Antichristian Rome, after she hath espoused the Cause, and walked in the way of the other, justifying in her own Practice, what they had done,
II. It was a Time wherein Judgments were near approaching; so our Saviour himself affirms it to have been, Luke 19. 42, 43, 44. Hadst thou known in this thy Day, They had now but a Day, and that now ⟨p. 9⟩almost ready to expire, though they saw it not,) nor would believe it. But the day of their desolation approached continually, and when the Apostle wrote his Epistle to the Hebrews, was making its entrance upon them Chap. 10. 25. ye see the day approaching, And we may hence learn That,