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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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3. When they are neglected as warnings, calling to Repentance, they change their nature, and become certain Signs of approaching Destruction. And in the observation of these Rules of Interpretation of Providential Severities, given us by our Saviour, we may be preserved from the excesses of neglecting on the one hand, what is contained in them; and of rash judging of Men or Causes on the other.
3. VVhen they are neglected as warnings, calling to Repentance, they change their nature, and become certain Signs of approaching Destruction. And in the observation of these Rules of Interpretation of Providential Severities, given us by our Saviour, we may be preserved from the excesses of neglecting on the one hand, what is contained in them; and of rash judging of Men or Causes on the other.
These things being premised for the opening of the words, the Truth wherein we are instructed by them, appears to be this.
When a Land, a Nation, a City, a Church, is filled with sin, so as that God gives them Warnings or Indications of his displeasure by previous Judgments; or other extraordinary Signs, if they are not as Warnings complied withal by Repentance and Reformation, they are Tokens of approaching Judgments, that shall not be avoided,
When a Land, a Nation, a City, a Church, is filled with sin, so as that God gives them Warnings or Indications of his displeasure by previous Judgments; or other extraordinary Signs, if they are not as Warnings complyed withal by Repentance and Reformation, they are Tokens of approaching Judgments, that shall not be avoided,