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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. Of that favourable and singular protection afforded them in the wilderness; when they were encompassed with enemies round about: I covered thee in the shadow of mine hand.
3. Of that favourable and singular protection afforded them in the wildernesse; when they were encompassed with enemies round about: I covered thee in the shadow of mine hand.
Now to what end was all this, why, saith he, that I might plant the Heavens, and: lay the foundation of the Earth. What! of these material visible Heavens and Earth? 2460 years before at least, were they planted and established: it is all but making of Zion a people, which before was scattered in distinct families. And how is this done? why the Heavens are planted, or a glorious frame of Government and Polity is erected amongst them, and the multitudes of their people are disposed into an orderly commonwealth, to be a firm foundation and bottom, for the Government amongst them. This is the Heavens and Earth of the Nations which is to be shaken, in my Text.
Now to what end was all this, why, saith he, that I might plant the Heavens, and: lay the foundation of the Earth. What! of these materiall visible Heavens and Earth? 2460 yeers before at least, were they planted and established: it is all but making of Zion a people, which before was scattered in distinct families. And how is this done? why the Heavens are planted, or a glorious frame of Government and Politie is erected amongst them, and the multitudes of their people are disposed into an orderly commonwealth, to be a firm foundation and bottome, for the Government amongst them. This is the Heavens and Earth of the Nations which is to be shaken, in my Text.
Isa. 34. 4. All the host of heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll, and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falleth from the vine. Now these dissolved, rolled Heavens, are no other, but the power and heights of the opposing Nations, their government and tyranny, especially that of Idumea, as both the fore-going and following verses do declare. The indignation of the Lord (saith he) is upon the Nations, and his fury upon their Armies, he hath delivered them to the slaughter, their slain, &c.