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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. When by reason of the neglect of them, and want of compliance with them, God doth bring distress and calamities upon a People in general. This is a sad event. But however, under it God doth often preserve a Seed and Remnant, which being brought through the Fire, and thereby purged and purified, though but as a poor and afflicted People, yet they shall be preserved as a Seed, and Reserve for a better State of the Church, see Zach. 13. 8, 9. Isai. 6. 11. 12, 13. Chap. 14. 6. Chap. 24. 13. Zeph. 3. 12. Ezek 5. 2, 12.
2. When by reason of the neglect of them, and want of complyance with them, God doth bring distress and calamities upon a People in general. This is a sad event. But however, under it God doth often preserve a Seed and Remnant, which being brought through the Fire, and thereby purged and purified, though but as a poor and afflicted People, yet they shall be preserved as a Seed, and Reserve for a better State of the Church, see Zach. 13. 8, 9. Isai. 6. 11. 12, 13. Chap. 14. 6. Chap. 24. 13. Zeph. 3. 12. Ezek 5. 2, 12.
3. When God utterly forsakes a People, will regard them no more; but give them up unto Idolatry, False-Worship, and all sorts of Wickedness. When he says, Why should you be stricken any more, you will revolt more and more. This is the sorest of Judgments. Woe unto them saith the ⟨p. 22⟩Lord, when I depart from them, Hosea, 9. 12