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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.
1. Especial Judgments in such a season, befalling in any, do not prove an especial Guilt, or provocation in them.
This our Saviour expressly denies, and that with respect unto both the Instances insisted on, and that distinctly, verse 2. v. 4. I do not hence absolutely establish a general Rule as unto all Times and Persons. For.
This our Saviour expresly denies, and that with respect unto both the Instances insisted on, and that distinctly, verse 2. v. 4. I do not hence absolutely establish a general Rule as unto all Times and Persons. For.
1. The observation is here confined and limited, unto such a Season as that under consideration; namely a time of provoking Sins in the generality of the People, and approaching Judgments. In such a season no assignation of especial Guilt ought to be made on especial Calamitous Sufferings.
2. Some Persons may be guilty of such daring presumptuous Sins, that if they are overtaken with especial Judgements in this World, it is the height of Impiety not to own the especial revenging hand of God, in their destruction; such was the Death of Herod,