A90266:263
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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3. The end of your surprisal. Amongst others, this was apparently one, to be a reserve for their safety, who went on, in all ways of Ruin. You were kept to preserve them in those ways, wherein they perished. Whether could reason reach this or no; that you being in their power, kept on purpose for their Rescue, if brought to any great straight, with the price of your Heads, to redeem their own, that they should be brought to greater distress, then ever any before in this Kingdom, and you be delivered, without the lest help to them in their need, It was beyond your Friends reason, who could not hope it, it was beyond your Enemies reason who never feared it, if you believed it, you have the comfort of it.
3. The end of your surprizall. Amongst others, this was apparently one, to be a reserve for their safety, who went on, in all ways of Ruine. You were kept to preserve them in those ways, wherein they perished. Whether could reason reach this or no; that you being in their power, kept on purpose for their Rescue, if brought to any great straight, with the price of your Heads, to redeem their own, that they should be brought to greater distresse, then ever any before in this Kingdom, and you be delivered, without the lest help to them in their need, It was beyond your Freinds reason, who could not hope it, it was beyond your Enemies reason who never feared it, if you believed it, you have the comfort of it.
4. The refusal of granting an exchange, for such persons, as they accounted more considerable then your selves, and whose enlargement might have advantaged the cause they professed to maintain, exceedingly more then your restraint, what doth it but proclaim your intended ruin? This was the way of deliverance, which for a long Season, Reason chiefly rested on, the main pillar of all its building, which when it was cut in two, what could in it be seen but desolation.
4. The refusall of granting an exchange, for such persons, as they accounted more considerable then your selves, and whose enlargement might have advantaged the cause they professed to maintaine, exceedingly more then your restraint, what doth it but proclame your intended ruine? This was the way of deliverance, which for a long Season, Reason chiefly rested on, the maine pillar of all its building, which when it was cut in two, what could in it be seen but desolation.