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God's work in founding Zion, and his peoples duty thereupon. A sermon preached in…
God's work in founding Zion, and his peoples duty thereupon. A sermon preached in the Abby Church at Westminster, at the opening of the Parliament Septemb. 17th 1656. / By John Owen: a servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel.God's work in founding Zion, and his peoples duty thereupon. A sermon preached in the Abby Church at Westminster, at the opening of the Parliament Septemb. 17th 1656. / By John Owen: a servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospell.
Oxford: printed by Leon for Tho, 1656
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ISAIAH. 14. 32. What shall one then answer the Messengers of the Nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
ISAIAH. 14. 32. What shall one then answer the Messengers of the Nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion and the poore of his people shall trust in it.
The Head of the Prophecy, whereof these words are the close, lies in. v. 28. (in the year that King Ahaz died was this burden) which gives us the season, and just time of its Revelation and delivery.
THe Head of the Prophetie, whereof these words are the close, lies in. v. 28. (in the year that King Ahaz died was this burden) which gives us the season, and just time of its Revelation and delivery.
The Kingdom of Judah was at that season low, and broken. Foreign invasions, and intestine divisions had made it so; An account hereof is given us. 2 Chron. cap. 28. throughout; as it is especially summed up. v. 19. of that Chap. For the Lord ⟨p. 2⟩brought Judah low, because of Ahaz King of Israel, for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord.
The Kingdome of Judah was at that season low, and broken. Forraigne invasions, and intestine divisions had made it so; An account hereof is given us.