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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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The word here used for trusting, is sometimes taken for to repair, or to retreat to any thing, and not properly to put trust, affiance or confidence, and so it is rendered in the margin of your books: they shall betake themselves to it. So is the word used Judges. 9. 15. Psal. 36. 7.
The word here used for trusting, is sometimes taken for to repaire, or to retreat to any thing, and not properly to put trust, affiance or confidence, and so it is rendred in the margine of your books: they shall betake themselves to it. So is the word used Judges. 9. 15. Psal. 36. 7.
So the intendment is, that the poor preserved people of God, seeing his design to found Zion, and ⟨p. 12⟩to establish the interest of his chosen, shall leave of all other designs, aims and contrivances, and wind up all on the same bottom; They shall not, at least they ought not (for I told you the words might denote either their duty, what they ought to do, or the event what they shall do) set up designs, and aims of their own, and contend about other things! but betake their hopes to that which is the main intendment of God, the Establishment of the interest of his people, and cast all other things in a subserviency thereunto. The sum is,
So the intendment is, that the poore preserv'd people of God, seing his designe to found Sion, and ⟨p. 12⟩to establish the interest of his chosen, shall leave of all other designes, aymes and contrivances, and winde up all on the same bottome; They shall not, at least they ought not (for I told you the words might denote either their duty, what they ought to doe, or the event what they shall doe) set up designes, and aymes of their owne, and contend about other things! but betake their hopes to that which is the main intendment of God, the Establishment of the interest of his people, and cast all other things in a subserviency thereunto. The summe is,