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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. That God delights to mix a spirit of giddiness, error, and folly in the counsels of the wise men of the world; making them reel and stagger in their way like a drunken man, that they shall not know what to do, but commonly in their greatest concernments, fix upon things, as devoid of true reason and sound wisdom, as any children or fools could close withal. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness, and the Counsel of the froward is carried headlong; Job 5. 13. 14. so at large Isa. 19. 11. 12, 13, 14. and now where is their glory? I could give instances of both these, and that plentifully in the days and seasons that have passed over our own heads.
2. That God delights to mix a spirit of giddinesse, error, and folly in the counsels of the wise men of the world; making them reel and stagger in their way like a drunken man, that they shall not know what to do, but commonly in their greatest concernments, fix upon things, as devoid of true reason and sound wisdom, as any children or fools could close withal. He taketh the wise in their own craftinesse, and the Counsel of the froward is carried headlong; Job 5. 13. 14. so at large Isa. 19. 11. 12, 13, 14. and now where is their glory? I could give instances of both these, and that plentifully in the dayes and seasons that have passed over our own heads.
The like also may be said of the strength, the power, the armies of any people; if their number and wisdom be vain, be no Glory, their strength which is but the result or exurgency of their number and wisdom, must needs be so also. But you have all this summed up together. Jer. 9. 23. 24. Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let no the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord: It is neither Wisdom nor might nor riches, that is our Glory; but our interest in Jehovah only.