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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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God will not exalt any creature unto a pitch of opposition to 1himself, or to stand▪ in the way of his workings. The very end of all things in their several stations, is to be serviceable to his ⟨p. 39⟩purposes towards his Own. Obedience in senseless Creatures, is natural, even against the course of nature in the season of deliverance. Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon, Josh. 10. 12. Who art thou, O great Mountain? Before Zerubbabel, thou shalt become a plain, Zech. 4. 7. The most Mountainous opposers shall be levelled, when the Spirit of God sets in for that purpose. There is a strength in every promise and engagement of God unto his people, that is able to carry the whole frame of Heaven and Earth before it. If they can believe, all things are possible to them that believe. When the Decree is to bring forth, the fruit of the promise, it will overturn Empires, destroy Nations, divide Seas, ruin Armies, open Prisons, break Chains and Fetters, and bear down all before it. As the wind shut up in the Earth, will shake the pillars as it were of its mighty body, but it will find or make a passage. The least promise of deliverance, if the season thereof be come, though it were shut up under strong and mighty powers, crafty counsels, dungeons and prisons, like the doors and lasting bars of the Earth, the truth and power of God shall make them all to tremble, and give birth to his peoples deliverance.
God will not exalt any creature unto a pitch of opposition to 1himselfe, or to stand▪ in the way of his workings. The very end of all things in their severall stations, is to be serviceable to his ⟨p. 39⟩purposes towards his Own. Obedience in senslesse Creatures, is naturall, even against the course of nature in the season of deliverance. Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moone in the valley of Ajalon,