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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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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 ⟨p. 15⟩on England if not diverted; for as unto these Signs, not only the Scripture, but all Heathen-Stories, are filled with an Account of them. Before the approach of desolating Judgements, Nature the common Parent of Mankind, did always put forth it self in irregular, unusual Actings, in fiery-Meteors, Comets, Earthquakes, strange Appearances in the Air, Voices heard, and the like.
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 Armes, 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 ⟨p. 15⟩on England if not diverted; for as unto these Signs, not only the Scripture, but all Heathen-Stories, are filled with an Account of them. Before the approach of desolating Judgements, Nature the common Parent of Mankind, did always put forth it self in irregular, unusual Actings, in fiery-Meteors, Comets, Earthquakes, strange Appearances in the Air, Voices heard, and the like.
The brute Elements tremble at the approaches of God in his Judgement against the Inhabitants of the Earth; so the Prophet expresseth it,