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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. The fabric of Heaven and Earth is by others also intended, not in respect of the signs and prodigies formerly wrought in them; but of that dissolution, or as they suppose Alteration, which they shall receive at the last day: So Paraeus Grotius, many more. Now though these avoid the Rock of holding out as accomplished what is only promised, yet this Gloss also is a dress disfiguring the mind of God in the Text. For,
3. The fabrick of Heaven and Earth is by others also intended, not in respect of the signes and prodigies formerly wrought in them; but of that dissolution, or as they suppose Alteration, which they shall receive at the last day: So Paraeus Grotius, many more. Now though these avoid the Rock of holding out as accomplished what is onely promised, yet this Glosse also is a dresse disfiguring the minde of God in the Text. For,
1. The things here said to be shaken, do stand in a plain opposition to the things that cannot be shaken, nor removed; and therefore they are to be removed, that these may be brought in. Now the things to be brought in are the things of the kingdom of the Lord Jesus: what opposition, I pray, do the material fabric of Heaven and Earth stand in to the kingdom of the Lord Jesus? doubtless none at all, being the proper seat of that kingdom.
1. The things here said to be shaken, do stand in a plain opposition to the things that cannot be shaken, nor removed; and therefore they are to be removed, that these may be brought in. Now the things to be brought in are the things of the kingdom of the Lord Jesus: what opposition, I pray, do the materiall fabrick of Heaven and Earth stand in to the kingdom of the Lord Jesus? doubtlesse none at all, being the proper seat of that kingdom.
2. There will on this ground, be no bringing in of the kingdom of the Lord Jesus, until indeed that kingdom in the sense here insisted on is to cease, that is after the day of judgement, when the kingdom of Grace shall have place no more.