A90266:257
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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To convince the unbelieving world it self of his power, providence, 1and love to them that put their trust in him: that they may be found to cry, verily there is a reward for the righteous, verily he is a God who 2ruleth in the earth. When the Egyptian Magicians see real Miracles, beyond all their juggling pretences, they cry out this is the finger of God, Exo. 8. 19. profane Nebuchadnezzar beholding the deliverance of those three worthies, from the fiery Furnace, he owns them for the servants ⟨p. 54⟩of the most high God, Dan. 3. 26. Daniel being preserved in the Lyons den Darius acknowledgeth the power and Kingdom of the living God, Dan. 6. 26 Glorious appearances of God for his people beyond the reach of reason, wrests from the World amazement, or acknowledgement, and in both God is exalted He will appear in such distresses as that he will be seen of his very enemies: they shall not be able with the Philistines to question whether it be his hand, or a chance happened to 3them, but conclude with the Egyptians, that fly they must for God fights for his people, Ex. 14. 25. If God should never give blessings but in such a way, as reason might discover their dependence on secondary causes, men would not see his goings, nor acknowledge his operations. But when he mightily makes bare his Arm, in events beyond their imaginations, they must veil before him.
To convince the unbelieving world it self of his power, providence, 1and love to them that put their trust in him: that they may be found to cry, verily there is a reward for the righteous, verily he is a God who 2