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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.
1. By whom you were surprised and put under restraint. Now these were of two sorts: 1. The heads and leaders, 2. The tumultuous multitude.
1. By whom you were surprised and put under restrant. Now these were of two sorts: 1. The heads and leaders, 2. The tumultuous multitude.
For the first, some of them being dead, and some under durance, I shall not say any thing: nullum cum victis certamen et aethere cassis. I leave the stream from the flint to your own thoughts.
For the first, some of them being dead, and some under durance, I shall not say any thing: nullum cum victis certamen et aethere cassis. I leave the streame from the flint to your own thoughts.
2. For the multitude, an enraged, headless, lawless, godless multitude, gathered out of Inns, Taverns, Alehouses, Stables, Highways, and the like nurseries of piety and pity. Such as these having gotten their Superiors under their power, their Governors under their disposal, their Restrainers under their restraint, their Oppressors, as they thought, under their fury, what was it that kept in their fury & their revenge, which upon the like occasions and advantages, hath almost always bin executed? Search your stories, you will not find many that speak of such a deliverance. For a few Governors prevailed on, unto durance, by a godless rout, in an insurrection, and yet to come off in peace and safety, is surely a Work of more then ordinary providence.
2. For the multitude, an enraged, headles, lawles, godles multitude, gathered out of Innes, Taverns, Alehouses, Stables, Highways, and the like nurseries of piety and pitty. Such as these having gotten their Superiors under their power, their Governors under their disposall, their Restrainers under their restraint, their Opressors, as they thought, under their fury, what was it that kept in their fury & their revenge, which upon the like occasions and advantages, hath almost always bin executed? Seaech your stories, you will not find many that speak of such a deliverance. For a few Governors prevailed on, unto durance, by a godlesse rout, in an insurrection, and yet to come off in peace and safety, is surely a Work of more then ordinary providence.