A90266:265
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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5. The straights you were at length reduced to, between your Enemies swords and your friends bullets, which intended for your deliverance, without the safeguard of providence, might have been your ruin, piercing more then once, the house wherein you were. Surely it was then an eminent work of Faith to stand still, and see the Salvation of God.
5. The straights you were at length reduced to, betwen your Enemies swords and your friends bullets, which intended for your deliverance, without the safeguard of providence, might havebin your ruin, peircing more then once, the house wherein you were. Surely it was then an eminent work of Faith to stand still, and see the Salvation of God.
The many passages of providence evidently working for your preservation, which I have received from some of your selves, I willingly pass over. What I have already said is sufficient to declare that to Reasons Eye you were as dead bones upon the Earth. For our parts who were endangered spectators, at the best, we were but in the Prophets frame, and to any question about your enlargement could Answer only, the Lord alone he knows. And now behold the Lord hath chosen you out, to be examples of his loving kindness, in fetching mercy for you, from beyond the ken of Reason, yea from above the reach of much precious Faith. He hath brought water for you ⟨p. 56⟩out of the flint. Reckon your deliverance under this head of operations, and I hope you will not be unthankful.
The many passages of providence evidently working for your preservation, which I have received from some of your selves, I willingly passe over. What I have already said is sufficient to declare that to Reasons Eye you were as dead bones upon the Earth. For our parts who were endangered spectators, at the best, we were but in the Prophets frame, and to any question about your enlargement could Answer only, the Lord alone he knowes. And now behold the Lord hath chosen you out, to be examples of his loving kindnesse, in fetching mercy for you, from beyond the ken of Reason, yea from above the reach of much pretious Faith. He hath brought water for you