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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 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.
2. The condition that this remnant or escaping had been in is laid down in some figurative expressions concerning the smallness of this remnant, or the paucity of them that should escape, and the greatness of the extremities they should be exercised withal. I cannot insist on particulars; it may suffice that great distresses and calamities are intimated therein; and such have the days of our former trials and troubles been to some of us.
2. The condition that this remnant or escaping had been in is laid down in some figurative expressions concerning the smalness of this remnant, or the paucity of them that should escape, and the greatness of the extremities they should be exercised withal. I cannot insist on particulars; it may suffice that great distresses and calamities are intimated therein; and such have the days of our former trials and troubles been to some of us.
3. The Promises here made to this People, thus escaped from great distresses are of two sorts. 1. Original or fundamental, and then consequential thereon.