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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.
I shall first give some Evidences of the Truth laid down, and then the reason of it, which will make way for what I principally intend.
I shall not insist on the especial kind of Warnings or Signs here mentioned, but only on the general nature of divine Warnings by the Word or otherwise, in such a season, as wherein an abounding of Sin is accompanied with great evidences of approaching Judgments.
1. According unto this rule was the dealing of God with the Old World, which is set forth unto us for an Example; see 1 Pet. 3. 20. with 2. 5.
The men of the Old World were a sinful ⟨p. 23⟩provoking Generation. God gave them warning of his displeasure by the Preaching of Noah, and other ways; during his Ministry, the long suffering of God waited for the Repentance and Reformation. For this was the end both of the Season, and of the Ministry granted unto them therein: But when it was not complied withal, he brought the Flood on those ungodly men.