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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.
3. Those who first fall under Judgments, are not always the worst that Judgments shall befall, nor are the first Judgments usually the most severe; so it is plain in these Instances. And because we have Instances of this nature amongst us, we should consider how to make a right Judgment concerning them; and these three things we may safely determine.
1. That those who suffered were Sinners also,1 though they were not so only, or in an especial manner. This is necessary unto the vindication of the Justice of God.
- 1These things were spoken on the burning of several Persons to death, in one of the late Fires in London.
2. That he who hath made them warnings unto us, might have made us warnings unto them; herein his Sovereignty and Mercy towards us, who escape, is manifest.
2. That he who hath made them warnings unto us, might have made us warnings unto them; herein his Soveraignty and Mercy towards us, who escape, is manifest.