A90266:82
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 most glorious appearance of God comes infinitely short of his own eternal Majesty as he is in himself: it is but a discovery, that there is the hiding of infinite perfection.) Or, there his power appeared to us, which was hidden from the rest of world.
(The most glorious appearance of God comes infinitly short of his own eternall Majesty as he is in himselfe: it is but a discovery, that there is the hiding of infinite perfection.) Or, there his power appeared to us, which was hidden from the rest of world.
When God is doing great things, he gives glorious manifestations of his ⟨p. 15⟩1excellencies to his secret ones. The appearance on Sinai, goes before his passage into Canaan. Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the Prophets. Amos 3. 7. When he is to send Moses for the deliverance of his people, he appears to him in a burning unconsumed bush, Exod. 3. 2. a sign manifesting the presence of his power, to preserve his Church unconsumed in the middest of burning fiery Afflictions. Unto this very end, were all the visions, that are recorded in the Scripture; All of them accommodated to the things which God was presently doing. And this he doth:
When God is doing great things, he gives glorious manifestations of his ⟨p. 15⟩1excellencies to his secret ones. The appearance on Sinai, goes before his passage into Canaan. Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants the Prophets.