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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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See hence the stoutness of sinful hearts. More stubborn then 1the Mountains, more flinty then the Rocks, more senseless then the great deep. Friend art thou stronger then Horeb, yet that trembled at the presence of this mighty God, whom it never had provoked? Are thy lusts like the streams of Jordan, yet they run back from his Chariots of salvation? Are thy corruptions more firmly seated on thy soul, then the Mountains on their Bases, ⟨p. 38⟩yet they leaped like frighted sheep, before that God against whom they had not sinned: And wilt thou, a small handful of sinful dust, that hast ten thousand times provoked the eyes of his glory, not tremble before him, coming on his horses and Chariots of salvation, his mighty Works and powerful Word? Shall a Lyon tremble and thou not afraid, who art ready to tremble with a thought of that poor creature? Shall the Heavens bow, the deep beg for mercy, and thou be senseless? Shall all creatures quake for the sin of man, and sinful man be secure? know you not that the time is coming wherein such men will desire the trembling Rocks, to be a covert to their more affrighted souls?
See hence the stoutnesse of sinfull hearts. More stubborne then 1the Mountaines, more flinty then the Rocks, more senselesse then the great deep. Friend art thou stronger then Horeb, yet that trembled at the presence of this mighty God, whom it never had provoked? Are thy lusts like the streames of Jordan, yet they runne back from his Chariots of salvation? Are thy corruptions more firmely seated on thy soule, then the Mountaines on their Bases, ⟨p. 38⟩yet they leaped like frighted sheepe, before that God against whom they had not sinned: And wilt thou, a small handfull of sinfull dust, that hast ten thousand times provoked the eyes of his glory, not tremble before him, comming on his horses and Chariots of salvation, his mighty Workes and powerfull Word? Shall a Lyon tremble and thou not afraid, who art ready to tremble with a thought of that poore creature? Shall the Heavens bow, the deepe begge for mercy, and thou be senselesse? Shall all creatures quake for the sin of man, and sinfull man be secure? know you not that the time is comming wherein such men will desire the trembling Rockes, to be a covert to their more affrighted soules?