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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. It is needful unto the Vindication of the Faithfulness of God in his Threatenings given out by Divine Revelation. By this ⟨p. 29⟩he hath always from the beginning of the World, testified unto his own Holiness and Righteousness, whereof they are the most proper Expressions. Those first recorded of them are in the Prophecy of Enoch, Jude 14, 15, And they have been since continued in all Ages. But whereas the Wisdom of God acting in Righteousness, hath been accompanied with Patience and Forbearance, in the Accomplishment of these Threatenings, there have been, and yet are Mockers and Scoffers at these Divine Threatenings, as though they were a mere Noise, of no efficacy or signification. So the Apostle declares the Thoughts of the Minds of Men profane and ungodly, 2 Pet. 3. 3, 4. Wherefore there is a Condecency unto the Divine Excellencies, that God in his own Way and Time should vindicate his Faithfulness in all his Threatenings.
2. It is needfull unto the Vindication of the Faithfulness of God in his Threatnings given out by Divine Revelation. By this ⟨p. 29⟩he hath alwaies from the beginning of the VVorld, testified unto his own Holiness and Righteousness, whereof they are the most proper Expressions. Those first recorded of them are in the Prophesie of Enoch, Jude 14, 15, And they have been since continued in all Ages. But whereas the Wisdom of God acting in Righteousness, hah been accompanied with Patience and Forbearance, in the Accomplishment of these Threatnings, there have been, and yet are Mockers and Scoffers at these Divine Threatnings, as though they were a meer Noise, of no efficacy or signification. So the Apostle declares the Thoughts of the Minds of Men prophane and ungodly, 2 Pet. 3. 3, 4. Wherefore there is a Condecency unto the Divine Excellencies, that God in his own Way and Time should vindicate his Faithfulness in all his Threatnings.