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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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. 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.
3. That we also have an hand in that Guilt, forerunning such Providences so far as there is any thing penal in them. For such private previous Judgments are the effect of public Provocations.
3. That we also have an hand in that Guilt, forerunning such Providences so far as there is any thing poenal in them. For such private previous Judgments are the effect of publick Provocations.