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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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Isa. 41. 14, 15. Fear not thou worm Jacob, and ye few men of Israel, behold I will make thee, a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth, thou shalt thresh the Mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff, thou shalt fan them, &c.
Isa. 41. 14, 15. Fear not thou worme Jacob, and yee few men of Israel, behold I will make thee, a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth, thou shalt thresh the Mountaines, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaffe, thou shalt fan them, &c.
To make a worm a threshing instrument with teeth, to cause that instrument to beat Mountains and hills into chaff, that chaff to be blown away with the wind, that, that worm may rejoice in God, to advance a small handful of despised ones, to the ruin of Mountainous Empires, and Kingdoms, until they be broken and scattered to nothing, is a mercy that comes from beyond the ken of any ordinary eye.
To make a worm a threshing instrument with teeth, to cause that instrument to beat Mountaines and hills into chaffe, that chaffe to be blowne away with the wind, that, that worm may rejoyce in God, to advance a small handfull of despised ones, to the ruine of Mountanous Empires, and Kingdomes, untill they be broken and scattered to nothing, is a mercy that comes from beyond the ken of any ordinary eye.
Eze. 37 3. The Prophet professeth that the deliverance promised was beyond his apprehension. Son of man can these bones live and I answered O Lord God thou knowest. The Lord intimates in the following verses, that he will provide a means, for his Church's recovery, when it seemeth as remote therefrom, as dry bones scattered upon the face of the Earth are from a mighty living Army. This he calls opening their graves, v. 12, 13.