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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, for the season of this work, he prays that it may be accomplished, in the middest of the years: upon which you may see what weight he lays by his repetition of it in the same verse. It is something doubtful what may be the peculiar sense of these words: whether the midst of the years, do not denote the whole time of the peoples bondage under the Chaldeans, (whence 1Junius renders the words, interea temporis, (noting this manner of expression (the midst of the years) for an Hebraism) during which space he intercedes for mercy for them. Or whether the middest of the years, do not denote some certain point of times, as the season of their return from Captivity, about the middest ⟨p. 9⟩of the years between their first King, and the coming of the Messiah, putting a period to their Church and State. Whether of these is more probable, is not needful to insist upon; this is certain, that a certain time is pointed at: which will yield us,2
Secondly, for the season of this work, he prayes that it may be accomplished, in the middest of the yeares: upon which you may see what weight he layes by his repetition of it in the same verse. It is something doubtfull what may be the peculiar sense of these words: whether the midst of the yeares, do not denote the whole time of the peoples bondage under the Caldeans, (whence 1Junius renders the words, interea temporis, (noting this maner of expression (the midst of the yeares) for an Hebraisme) during which space he intercedes for mercy for them. Or whether the middest of the yearrs, do not denote some certain point of times, as the season of their return from Captivity, about the middest ⟨p. 9⟩of the yeares between their first King, and the coming of the Messiah, putting a period to their Church and State. Whether of these is more probable, is not needfull to insist upon; this is certain, that a certain time is pointed at: which will yield us,2