A90266:147
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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From the Intendment of all mercies: they are for every 1believer. All things are theirs, world, life, death, things present, things to come, 1 Cor. 2. 22. All promises being made to every believer, and all mercies being the fruit of these promises, they must all belong to every believer. Now if all these should be kept from us at that distance wherein they fall in their accomplishment in respect of time, what would they avail us? God therefore hath appointed that they shall have a real, though not a natural presence and subsistence at all times, to all believers.
From the Intendment of all mercies: they are for every 1believer. All things are theirs, world, life, death, things present, things to come, 1 Cor. 2. 22. All promises being made to every believer, and all mercies being the fruit of these promises, they must all belong to every believer. Now if all these should be kept from us at that distance wherein they fall in their accomplishment in respect of time, what would they availe us? God therefore hath appointed that they shall have a reall, though not a naturall presence and subsistence at all times, to all believers.
- 1Reas. 2.
See hence what use you may make of past mercies, deliverances, 1blessings, with promised incomings: Carry them about you, by Faith, that you may use them at need: Where is the God of Elijah: Awake, awake oh Arm of the Lord, &c. I saw the Tents of Cushan: Take store mercies along with you in every Trial. Use them, or they'll grow rusty, and not pass in heaven. Learn to eat Leviathan many years after his death. Forget not your pearls, scatter not away your treasure, be rich in a heap of Mercies, Faith will make you so. The Love, the comfort, the benefit of all former and future blessings are yours, if you know how to use them. Oh how have we lost our mercies in every hedge and ditch! Have none of us skill to lay up the last eminent deliverance against a rainy day?