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Ouranonn Ourania, the shaking and translating of heaven and earth a sermon preached to…Ouranōn Ourania, the shaking and translating of heaven and earth a sermon preached to…
Ouranonn Ourania, the shaking and translating of heaven and earth a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament assembled on April 19, a day set apart for extraordinary humiliation / by John Owen.Ouranōn Ourania, the shaking and translating of heaven and earth a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament assembled on April 19, a day set apart for extraordinary humiliation / by John Owen.
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1649
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.
3. Its own stability, it shall never be destroyed.
For the first, there is great debate, about the principal season of the accomplishing of this prediction: much hesitation who those Kings are in whose days the kingdom of Christ is eminently to be established. In the days when the two legs of the Roman Empire shall be divided into ten Kingdoms, and those kingdoms have opposed themselves to the power of Christ, that is in the days wherein we live, say some. Yea most of the Ancients took this for the Roman Empire: and to these the bringing in of the kingdom of Christ, is the establishment of it in these days: Others understand the Syrian and Egyptian branches of the Grecian Monarchy, and the bringing in of Christs kingdom, to be in his birth, death, and preaching of the Gospel, wherein certainly the foundations of it were laid: I will not contend with any mortal hereabouts. Only I shall oppose one or two things to this latter interpretation: as,
For the first, there is great debate, about the principall season of the accomplishing of this prediction: much hesitation who those Kings are in whose dayes the kingdom of Christ is eminently to be established. In the dayes when the two legs of the Romane Empire shall be divided into ten Kingdoms, and those kingdoms have opposed themselves to the power of Christ, that is in the dayes wherein we live, say some. Yea most of the Ancients took this for the Romane Empire: and to these the bringing in of the kingdom of Christ, is the establishment of it in these dayes: Others understand the Syrian and Aegyptian branches of the Grecian Monarchy, and the bringing in of Christs kingdom, to be in his birth, death, and preaching of the Gospel, wherein certainly the foundations of it were layed: I will not contend with any mortall hereabouts. Onely I shall oppose one or two things to this latter interpretation: as,
1. The kingdom of Syria was totally destroyed and reduced into a Roman Province 60. years before the Nativity of Christ: and the Egyptian 30. So that it is impossible that the kingdom of Christ by his birth should be set up in their days.