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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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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.
Fourthly, Here is a sure Rule, given us, of the Interpretation of severe Providences in such a season, as that here intended. Such I mean as we have had amongst us, in Plague, and Fire, and Blood; and such as we have the Signs and Tokens of at this time in Heaven and Earth. For three things we are here taught safely to conclude concerning them,