A90266:129
Eben-ezer a memorial of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition…Eben-ezer a memoriall of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition…
Eben-ezer a memorial of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition on the first ten verses of the third chapter of the prophecy of Habakkuk in two sermons. The first preached at Colchester before his Excellency on a day of thanksgiving for the surrender thereof. The other at Rumford unto the committee who were imprisoned by the enemy Sep. 28. a day set apart unto thanksgiving for their deliverance. / By John Owen pastor of the church of God which is at Coggeshall.Eben-ezer a memoriall of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition on the first ten verses of the third chapter of the prophesie of Habakkuk in two sermons. The first preached at Colchester before his Excellency on a day of thanksgiving for the surrender thereof. The other at Rumford unto the committee who were imprisoned by the enemy Sep. 28. a day set apart unto thanksgiving for their deliverance. / By John Ovven pastor of the church of God which is at Coggeshall.
London: printed by W. Wilson, 1648
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None so vile enemies to the Church as superstitious Apostates.
These two Nations then set out all manner of opposers, gross Idolaters as Cushan, and superstitious envious Apostates as Midian.
These two Nations then set out all manner of opposers, grosse Idolators as Cushan, and superstitious envious Apostates as Midian.
2. Their state and condition severally: 1 The tents of Cushan were in Affliction: the tents, the Arabian Ethiopians of Cush, dwelling in tents: the Habitation for the Inhabitant, by an Hypallage. They were in Affliction, under vanity, under iniquity, the place of vanity, so variously are the words rendered: [Greek or Hebrew] under Affliction, Vanity, or Iniquity. Sin, and the punishment of it, are frequently in the Scripture of the same name: so near is the Relation. Aven is properly and most usually iniquity, but that it is here taken for the consequent of it, A consuming, perplexed, vexed condition can be no doubt. The Cushamites then were in Affliction, full of Anguish, Fear, Dread, vexation to see what would be the issue of those great and mighty things which God was doing in their borders for his people. uAfflicted with Israels happiness and their own fears, as is the condition of all wicked oppressors.