A90266:72
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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That which I shall chuse from amongst many others that present themselves a little to insist upon, is that
Former mercies with their times and places are to be had in thankful remembrance unto them who wait for future blessings. Faith is to this end separated by them. Awake, awake, put on strength O arm of the ⟨p. 12⟩Lord, awake as in the ancient days, as in the generations of old: art not thou it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the Dragon? Art not thou it that dried the sea, the waters of the great deep, that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? Isa. 51. 9, 10: The breaking of Rahab, that is Egypt, so called here, and Psal. 87. 4. Psal. 89. 11. for her great strength which the word signifies, and the wounding of the dragon, that great and crooked Afflictour Pharaoh is remembered, and urged for a motive to a new needed deliverance. so Psal. 74. 13, 14. Thou brakest the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people in the wilderness. Leviathan, the same Dragon, oppressing, persecuting Pharaoh; thou brakest his Heads, his Counsels, Armies, Power, and gavest him for meat, that the people for forty years together might be fed, sustained and nourished, with that wonderful mercy. Out of the eater came forth meat, out of the strong came forth sweetness.
Former mercies with their times and places are to be had in thankfull remembrance unto them who wait for future blessings. Faith is to this end separated by them. Awake, awake, put on strength O arm of the