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God's presence with a people, the spring of their prosperity
God's presence with a people, the spring of their prosperity; with their special interest in abiding with Him. A sermon, preached to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, at Westminster, Octob. 30. 1656. A day of solemn humiliation. / By John Owen, D.D. a servant of Jesus Christ, in the work of the Gospel. Printed by Order of Parliament.God's presence with a people, the spring of their prosperity; with their speciall interest in abiding with Him. A sermon, preached to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, at Westminster, Octob. 30. 1656. A day of solemn humiliation. / By John Owen, D.D. a servant of Jesus Christ, in the work of the Gospel. Printed by Order of Parliament.
London: printed by R.N. for Philemon Stephens, 1656
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And this is all that I shall offer for the Explication, Confirmation, and Cautioning of the proposition insisted on, what remains further to be opened, will fall in under the Uses of it: which now ensue.
This special presence of God, being (as you have 1heard) the great and only concernment of any people, the tenure, or condition thereof being our abiding with him, let our first Use be to instruct us particularly.
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First, what this special presence of God is, and 1wherein it doth consist.
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Secondly, what it is for us to abide with God, 1