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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.
The Grounds and Reasons of this Rule and Order in Divine Dispensations, are many, plain and obvious, which I shall not at large insist upon.
I shall only at present mention some of them, because those of the most Evidence and Importance will accrue afterwards unto our Consideration.
1. This Rule of proceeding is suited unto the Righteousness of God in the Government of the World, in the in-bred Light of ⟨p. 28⟩the Minds of Men. This Notion. That Judgment or Divine Vengeance will overtake impenitent Sinners, who have been previously warned of their Sin, is that which we are not taught, which we do not learn from one another, which is not only the Voice of Divine Revelation, but that which is born with us, which is inseparable from our Nature; the Light and Conviction whereof, neither with respect unto our selves or others, we can avoid, this is the Voice of nature in Mankind Impenitent Sinners, incurable by Warnings, are the proper Objects of divine Displeasure. And the absolute impunity of such Persons, would be a great Temptation unto Atheism, as the suspension of deserved Judgments on provoking Sinners, is with some at this day. But ordinarily and finally God will not act contrary unto the inbred Notions of his Righteousness the Government of the World, which he himself hath implanted in the Minds of Men. But as for the Times, Seasons and Ways of the Execution of his Judgments, he hath reserved them unto his own Sovereignty.