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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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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 ⟨p. 56⟩out of the flint. Reckon your deliverance under this head of operations, and I hope you will not be unthankfull.
You that have received so great mercy, we that have seen it, and all 1who have heard the Doctrine confirmed, let us learn to live by Faith. Live above all things that are seen. Subject them to the cross of Christ. Measure your condition, by your interest in Gods All-sufficiency. Do not in distress calculate what such, and such things can effect, but what God hath promised. Reckon upon that, for it shall come to pass. If you could get but this one thing, by all your sufferings and Dangers, to trust the Lord, to the utmost extent of his promises, it would prove a blessed captivity. All carnal fears would then be conquered, all sinful compliances with wicked men removed, &c.