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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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There be three things, in past, or future mercies, which faith makes present to the soul, giving in the subsistence of them, 1. their Love, 2. their Consolation, 3. their Use and Benefit.
There be three things, in past, or future mercies, which faith makes present to the soule, giving in the subsistance of them, 1. their Love, 2. their Consolation, 3. their Use and Benefit.
1. The Love of them: the Love, that was in former works, and the Love that is in promised mercies, that faith draws out, and really makes ours. The Love of every recorded deliverance, is given to us by faith. It looks into the Good-will, the Free-grace, the Loving-kindness of God, in every work that ever he did for his, and cries, yet this is mine: this is the kernel of that blessing, and this is mine: for the same Good-will, the same kindness he hath towards me also. Were the same outward actings needful, I should have them also. The Free-love of every mercy is Faiths proper Object. It makes all Joshua's great victories, present to every one of us. The promise that had the Love and Grace in it which run through them all, is given him: Josh. 1. 5. I will be with thee, I will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Now the Apostle tells us, that the truth and love of this promise is ours, Heb. 13. 5. Faith may, doth assure it self, that what good-will soever, was in all the great mercies which Joshua received upon that promise, is all ours. ⟨p. 28⟩All the good-will and choice Love of, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee, is mine and thine, if we are believers. He that hath this present, hath all Joshuas victories present. The very glory of the Saints in Heaven is ours in the love of it. We enjoy that love, which gave them glory, and will Crown us also in due time.
1. The Love of them: the Love, that was in former works, and the Love that is in promised mercies, that faith drawes out, and really makes ours. The Love of every recorded deliverance, is given to us by faith. It looks into the Good-will, the Free-grace, the Loving-kindnesse of God, in every work that ever he did for his, and cryes, yet this is mine: this is the kernell of that blessing, and this is mine: for the same Good-will, the same kindnesse he hath towards me also. Were the same outward actings needfull, I should have them also. The Free-love of every mercy is Faiths proper Object. It makes all Joshuah's great victories, present to every one of us. The promise that had the Love and Grace in it which run through them all, is given him: