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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.
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.
1. There is the great spring or fountain promise, from which all others as lesser streams do flow; and that is the promise of Christ himself unto them, and amongst them; ver. 2. He is that branch of Jehovah, and that fruit of the earth, which is there promised. He is the bottom and foundation, the spring and fountain of all the good that is or shall be communicated unto us, all other promises are but rivulets from that unsearchable ocean of Grace and love, that is in the promise of Christ; of which afterwards.
1. There is the great spring or fountain promise, from which all others as lesser streams do flow; and that is the promise of Christ himself unto them, and amongst them; ver. 2. He is that branch of Jehovah, and that fruit of the earth, which is there promised. He is the bottome and foundation, the spring and fountain of all the good that is or shall be communicated unto us, all other promises are but rivulets from that unsearchable ocean of Grace and love, that is in the promise of Christ; of which afterwards.