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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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1. Sinners must be brought to great extremities, to make them desire the Blood of Jesus. Weary and thirsty, before rock-water come. Thirst is a continually galling pressure. When a soul gaspeth like a parched Land, and is as far from self-refreshment, as a man from drawing waters out of a flint, then shall the side of Christ be opened to him. You that are full of your lusts, drunk with the world, here is not a drop for you. If you never come into the wilderness, you shall never have Rock-water,
1. Sinners must be brought to great extremities, to make them desire the Bloud of Jesus. Weary and thirsty, before rock-water come. Thirst is a continually galling pressure. When a soule gaspeth like a parched Land, and is as far from self-refreshement, as a man from drawing waters out of a flint, then shall the side of Christ be opened to him. You that are full of your lusts, drunk with the world, here is not a drop for you. If you never come into the wildernesse, you shall never have Rock-water,
2. Mercy to a convinced sinner seems of times as remote, as Rivers from a Rock of flint. The truth is, he never came near mercy, who thought not himself far from it. When the Israelites cried, we are ready to die for thirst, then stood they on the ground, where Rivers were to run.
2. Mercy to a convinced sinner seems of times as remote, as Rivers from a Rock of flint. The truth is, he never came neer mercy, who thought not himself far from it. When the Izraelites cryed, we are ready to die for thirst, then stood they on the ground, where Rivers were to runne.
3. Thirsty souls shall want no water, though it be fetched for them out of a Rock. Panters after the blood of Jesus, shall assuredly have refreshment and pardon, through the most unconquerable difficulties. Though grace and mercy seem to be locked up from them, like water in a flint, whence fire is more natural then water, yet God will not strike the rock of his justice and their flinty hearts together, to make hellfire sparkle about their ears, but with a rod of mercy on Christ, that abundance of water may be drawn out for their refreshment.