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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
O Lord according as thou promisedst, and engagedst thy self by Covenant to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with their posterity, that thou wouldest give them the Land of Canaan to be theirs for an inheritance, so by the dispensation of thy mighty power, thou hast fully accomplished it: and this he layeth down for the supportment of faith in a time of trouble.
O Lord according as thou promisedst, and ingagedst thy selfe by Covenant to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with their posterity, that thou wouldest give them the Land of Canaan to be theirs for an inheritance, so by the dispensation of thy mighty power, thou hast fully accomplished it: and this he layeth down for the supportment of faith in a time of trouble.
The words would afford many observations, I shall insist only on one.
The Lord will certainly make good all his promises, and engagements, 1to his people, though it cost him the making of his Bow quite naked, the manifestation of his power in the utmost dispensations thereof. Gods workings, are squared to his engagements. This is still the close of all gracious issues of providence, God hath done all according as be promised. Josh. 22. 4. 2 Sam. 7. 21. He brought out his people of old, with a mighty hand, with temptations, signs and wonders, and a stretched out arm, and all, because he would keep the Oath which he had sworn, and the engagement which he had made to their Fathers, Deut. 7. 8. What obstacles soever may lie in the way he hath done it, he will do it. Take one instance, particular places are too many to be insisted on. It was the purpose of his heart, to bring his Elect home to himself, from their forlorn lost condition. This he engageth himself to do,