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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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I do not say this will hold in every dispensation of God, in all seasons, from the beginning to the ending of them. In many works of his power and righteousness, he will have us bow our souls to the Law of his providence, and his Sovereignty, Wisdom, and goodness therein when his footsteps are in the deep, and his paths are not known; which is the reasonablest thing in the world.
I do not say this will hold in every dispensation of God, in all seasons, from the beginning to the ending of them. In many works of his power and righteousnesse, he will have us bow our souls to the Law of his providence, and his Soveraignty, Wisdome, and goodnesse therein when his footsteps are in the deep, and his pathes are not known; which is the reasonablest thing in the world.
But this generally is the way of his proceedings; especially in the common concernments of his people, and in the disposal of their public interests; his Work his Will and Counsels therein shall be eminent and glorious.
But this generally is the way of his proceedings; especially in the common concernments of his people, and in the disposall of their publick interests; his Work his Will and Councells therein shall be eminent and glorious.
It is chiefly from our selves, and our own follies that we come short of such an acquaintance with the works of God, as to be able to ⟨p. 20⟩give an Answer to every one that shall demand an account of them. When David was staggered at the works of God, he gives this reason of it, I was foolish and as a beast before him. Psal. 73. 22. That thoughtfulness and wisdom which keeps us in darkness, is our folly.