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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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Secondly, to keep them in continual fdependence of himself. 2He hath promised his own daily bread, not goods laid up for many years. Many children have bin undone by their Parents giving them too large a stock to trade for themselves: it has made them spend-thrifts, careless, and wanton. Should the Lord entrust his people with a continued stock of mercy, perhaps they would be full and deny him, and say who is the Lord? Prov. 30. 9. Jesurun did so: Deut. 32. 14, 15. Ephraim was filled according to her pasture and forgot the Lord. Hos. 13. 6.
Secondly, to keep them in continuall fdependance of himselfe. 2He hath promised his own dayly bread, not goods laid up for many years. Many children have bin undone by their Parents giving them too large a stock to trade for themselves: it has made them spend-thrifts, carelesse, and wanton. Should the Lord entrust his people with a continued stock of mercy, perhaps they would be full and deny him, and say who is the Lord? Prov. 30. 9. Iesurun did so: Deut. 32. 14, 15. Ephraim was filled according to her pasture and forgot the Lord. Hos. 13. 6.
- fIn caelo non in terramercedem promisit reddendam: quid alibi poscisquod alibi debitur? Ambros. Offic. lib. 1. cap. 16.
- 2Reas. 2.