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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.
1. The manner of its production; I will create it saith God. There is a creating power, needful to be exerted, for the preservation of Scions remnant. Their preservation must be of Gods creation. It is, not only, not to be educed out of any other principle or to be wrought by any other means; but it must, as it were by the Almighty power of God, be brought out of nothing; God must create it. At least, as there were two sorts of Gods creatures at the beginning, that dark body of matter, whose rise was merely from nothing; and those things which from that dark confused heap, he made to be other things, then what they were therein; it is of the last sort of creatures if not of the first. If the preservation of this Remnant be not out of nothing, without any means at all; yet it is for the most part from that darkness and confusion of things, which contributes very little or nothing towards it; I will create it saith God; and whilst he continues possessed of his creating power, it shall be well with his Israel.
1. The manner of its production; I will create it saith God. There is a creating power, needful to be exerted, for the preservation of Sions remnant. Their preservation must be of Gods creation. It is, not onely, not to be educed out of any other principle or to be wrought by any other means; but it must, as it were by the Almighty power of God, be brought out of nothing; God must create it. At least, as there were two sorts of Gods creatures at the beginning, that dark body of matter, whose rise was meerly from nothing; and those things which from that dark confused heap, he made to be other things, then what they were therein; it is of the last sort of creatures if not of the first. If the preservation of this Remnant be not out of nothing, without any means at all; yet it is for the most part from that darknesse and confusion of things, which contributes very little or nothing towards it; I will create it sath God; and whilst he continues possessed of his creating power, it shall be well with his Israel.
2. For the nature of it, it is here set out, under the terms of that eminent pledge of the presence of God ⟨p. 4⟩