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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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2. The other was a mere Effect of divine Providence, the death of eighteen men by the fall of a Tower in Siloam; that is a place of Waters, and a running stream in Jerusalem it self. And our Lord Jesus Christ declares herein, not only that all such Accidents are disposed by the Providence of God, but that he speaks in them for our Instruction.
2. The other was a meer Effect of divine Providence, the death of eighteen men by the fall of a Tower in Siloam; that is a place of Waters, and a running stream in Hierusalem it self. And our Lord Jesus Christ declares herein, not only that all such Accidents are disposed by the Providence of God, but that he speaks in them for our Instruction.
Both these, as they were Warnings, as we shall see, so they were Figures of the approaching destruction of the City and People: for that in the first place is the perishing here intended, as is manifest in the ensuing Parable, wherein the Church-State of the Jews is compared unto a barren ⟨p. 13⟩Fig-tree, which was to be cut down and destroyed. And accordingly that destruction did befall them, partly by the bloody Cruelty of the Romans, and partly by the fall and ruin of the Temple, Towers, and Walls of the City, both included in the Word, likewise; ye shall likewise perish, or in like manner. But although they were of various kinds, and men might evade the consideration of them on several pretences; the one being nothing but the Tyrannical Fury of Pilate, the other only a somewhat unusual Accident, yet our Lord Jesus Christ finds out the hand and Counsel of God in them both, and declares the same Language to be spoken in them both. Signs of the same event are doubled to show the certainty of it, like Pharaohs Dreams.
Both these, as they were Warnings, as we shall see, so they were Figures of the approaching destruction of the City and People: for that in the first place is the perishing here intended, as is manifest in the ensuing Parable, wherein the Church-State of the Jews is compared unto a barren ⟨p. 13⟩