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The glory and interest of nations professing the Gospel preached at a private fast,…
The glory and interest of nations professing the Gospel preached at a private fast, to the Commons assembled in Parliament / published by their command, by J. Owen.
London: printed for Philemon Stephens, 1659
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 next intendment of the words in the Type, seems to relate to the deliverance of the People of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, and the presence of God amongst them upon their return; God frequently taking occasion from thence, to mind them of the Covenant of Grace, with the full ratification and publication of it by Christ, as is evident from Jer. 31. and 32. and sundry other places.
The next intendment of the words in the Type, seems to relate to the deliverance of the People of the Jews from the Babilonish captivity, and the presence of God amongst them upon their return; God frequently taking occasion from thence, to mind them of the Covenant of Grace, with the full ratification and publication of it by Christ, as is evident from Jer. 31. and 32. and sundry other places.
As to our purpose, we have considerable in the Chapter, the Persons to whom these promises are given; the condition wherein they were; and the promises themselves, that are made to them for their supportment and consolation.
The persons intended are the Remnant, the Escaping, the evasion of Israel; as the word signifies, ver. 2. they that are left, that remain, ver. 3. who escape the great desolation that was to come on the body of the People, the furnace they were to pass through. Only in the close of that verse, they have a farther description added of them, from the purpose of God concerning their grace and glory; ⟨p. 2⟩they are written among the living, or rather written unto life; every one that is written, that is designed unto life in Jerusalem.