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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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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.
So is the same Application made of both these different Signs and Warnings by our Saviour; they have, saith he; the same Language, the same Signification. There was nothing at this time more hardened ⟨p. 14⟩the Jews unto their utter ruin, than the false Application they made of Providential Signs and Warnings which were all multiplied among them, as boding their good and deliverance, when they were all Tokens of their approaching ruin. For when such things are rejected as Warnings calling to Repentance and Reformation, as they were by them on a presumption that they were Signs of Gods appearance on their behalf, they became to be nothing but certain Forerunners of greater Judgements, and infallible Tokens of destruction; and so they will be to them likewise by whom they are yet despised.
So is the same Application made of both these different Signs and Warnings by our Saviour; they have, saith he; the same Language, the same Signification. There was nothing at this time more hardened ⟨p. 14⟩the Jews unto their utter ruine, than the false Application they made of Providential Signs and Warnings which were all multiplyed among them, as boding their good and deliverance, when they were all Tokens of their approaching ruine. For when such things are rejected as Warnings calling to Repentance and Reformation, as they were by them on a presumption that they were Signs of Gods appearance on their behalf, they became to be nothing but certain Forcrunners of greater Judgements, and infallible Tokens of destruction; and so they will be to them likewise by whom they are yet despised.
Secondly, God is pleased sometimes to give warnings of approaching Judgements, not only as unto the matter of them, that they shall be accompanied with severity; but also as unto the especial nature and manner of them; so was it with these two Signs of Blood by the Sword, and Death by the fall of the Tower, representing as in a Glass, that common calamity which was to befall the City and Nation. And I pray God that the prodigious Appearance of fiery-Meteors, like Swords, Armies, and Arms, with other things of the like nature may not be sent to point out the very kind and nature of the Judgments which are coming