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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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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, Joh. 8. 56. He saw it as Habakkuk the tents of Cushan in affliction. Faith made it present to him: All the Ages between him and his promised seed were as nothing to his keen-sighted faith. Hence the Apostle puts the mercies of the promise, all in one form and rank as already wrought, though some of them were enjoyed and some of them in this life cannot be. Rom. 8. 30. whom he hath justified, them he hath glorified: He hath done it for them already, because he hath made them believe it, and that gives it a present subsistence in their spirits▪ And for forepast works, they are still mentioned by the Saints, as if they had bin done in their days, before their eyes. Elisha calls up to remembrance a former Miracle, to the effecting the Like, 2 Kin. 2. 14.
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 subsistance as it were within us, though not actually made out unto us. 2. It is the evidence of things not seene: it extends it selfe 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 seene of the things that do not appeare. Abraham saw my day saith our Saviour,