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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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These things being premised, it is easy to give light and evidence to the Assertion laid down.
These things being premis'd, it is easy to give light and evidence to the Assertion laid down.
I might go through the story's of Gods dealings with the Nations of the world, and his own people amongst them, and manifest in each particular, that still His design was, the establishment of his peoples proper interest. But instead of instances take two or three Testimonies that occur. Deut. 32. 8. When the most high divided to the Nations their inheritance, when he separated the Sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. From the beginning God hath so ordered all the Nations of the world that they ⟨p. 26⟩may bear a proportion to what he hath to do with his people; that he may so order and dispose of them, as that his design towards his own may be accomplished. Amos. 9. 9. For lo I will command and will fifth the house of Israel among all Nations like as corn is sifted in a sive, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth; All the stir's and commotions that are in the world, are but Gods siftings of the Nations, that his chosen ones may be fitted for himself, and not lost in the chaff, and rubbish.
I might goe through the story's of Gods dealings with the Nations of the world, and his own people amongst them, and manifest in each particular, that still His design was, the establishment of his peoples proper interest. But instead of instances take two or three Testimonies that occure. Deut. 32. 8. When the most high divided to the Nations their inheritance, when he separated the Sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israell. From the begining God hath so order'd all the Nations of the world that they