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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.
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.
As to the persons in themselves considered, the application is easy unto this Assembly: Are you not the remnant, the escaping of England? Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Are you not they that are left, they that remain, from great trials and desolations; the Lord grant that the application may hold out, and abide to the end of the Prophecy.
As to the persons in themselves considered, the application is easie unto this Assembly: Are you not the remnant, the escaping of England? Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Are you not they that are left, they that remain, from great trials and desolations; the Lord grant that the application may hold out, and abide to the end of the Prophesie.