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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. What SHALL one: what shall, or what ought? what is it their duty to do or to say? or what shall they, upon the evidence of the things done, so do or say: either their duty, or the event is denoted, or both, as in such predictions it often falls out.
1. What SHALL one: what shall, or what ought? what is it their duty to doe or to say? or what shall they, upon the evidence of the things done, so doe or say: either their duty, or the event is denoted, or both, as in such predictions it often falls out.
2. What shall ONE? that is any one, or every one; the answer spoken of is either the duty of every one to give, or it will be so evident that any one shall be able to give it. The word one, I confess is not expressly in the original, but is evidently included in the verb [Greek or Hebrew]: what shall be answered, that is, by any one what ever. There is no more in the translation, then is eminently infolded in the Original expression of this thing.
2. What shall ONE? that is any one, or every one; the answer spoken of is either the duty of every one to give, or it will be so evident that any one shall be able to give it. The word one, I confess is not expressely in the originall, but is evidently included in the verbe 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: what shall be answered, that is, by any one what ever. There is no more in the translation, then is eminently infolded in the Originall expression of this thing.
3. What shall one THEN? that is, in the season when God hath disappointed the hopes and expectations of the enemies of his people, and hath strengthened their rod to bruise them again more then ever. That is a season wherein great inquiry will be made about those things; what shall one then answer? This word also, is included