A90266:140
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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4 The season of the Churches deliverance being come, Cushan and Midian, opposing enemies, and superstitious revolters shall surely wax vain and perish.
4 The season of the Churches deliverance being come, Cushan and Midian, opposing enemies, and superstitious revolters shall surely wax vaine and perish.
For the first, that faith gives a present, &c. the Apostle tells us, that Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen: Heb. 11. 1.
For the first, that faith gives a present, &c. the Apostle tels us, that Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen: Heb. 11. 1.
1. Of things hoped for: it looks forward to the promises, and so ⟨p. 27⟩gives the substance of them in present possession, so confirming our Minds and Hearts, that they may have a subsistence as it were within us, though not actually made out unto us. 2. It is the evidence of things not seen: it extends it self not only to things promised, but taking for its Object the whole Word of God, it makes evident, and present, things that are past also. The faith commended v. 3. is of things long since done, even the making of the things that are seen of the things that do not appear. Abraham saw my day saith our Saviour,