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A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled
A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled: on January 31. A day of solemn humiliation. With a discourse about toleration, and the duty of the civill magistrate about religion, thereunto annexed. Humbly presented to them, and all peace-loving men of this nation. / By John Owen, pastor of the Church of Christ, which is at Coggeshall in Essex.A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled: on January 31. A day of solemne humiliation. With a discourse about toleration, and the duty of the civill magistrate about religion, thereunto annexed. Humbly presented to them, and all peace-loving men of this nation. / By John Owen, pastor of the Church of Christ, which is at Coggeshall in Essex.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons for Henry Cripps, 1649
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A Sermon Preached to the Honourable House of Commons, Jan. 31. 1648.
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1. To Seal up a sinful Peoples destruction. Ely's Sons hearkened not, because the Lord would slay them, 1 Sam. 2. 25. When God intends Ruin to a people, they shall walk in ways, that tend thereunto: Now is their a readier way for a man to have a house on his head, then by pulling away the Pillars whereby it is supported? If by Moses standing in the Gap, the fury of the Lord be turned away, certainly if the people contend to remove him, their desolation sleepeth not. When therefore the Lord intends to lay Cities wast without Inhabitant, and houses without men, to make a Land utterly desolate, the way of its accomplishment is by making the hearts of the People fat, and their ears heavy, and shutting their eyes that they should not see, and attend to the means of their recovery, Isa. 6. 10, 11. So gathering in his peace and mercies from a provoking people, Jer. 16. 15.
1. To Seale up a sinfull Peoples destruction. Elie's Sonnes hearkened not, because the Lord would slay them, 1 Sam. 2. 25. When God intends Ruine to a people, they shall walk in wayes, that tend thereunto: Now is their a readier way for a man to have a house on his head, then by pulling away the Pillars whereby it is supported? If by Moses standing in the Gap, the fury of the Lord be turned away, certainely if the people contend to remove him, their desolation sleepeth not. When therefore the Lord intends to lay Cities wast without Inhabitant, and houses without men, to make a Land utterly desolate, the way of its accomplishment is by making the hearts of the People fat, and their eares heavy, and shutting their eyes that they should not see, and attend to the meanes of their recovery, Isa. 6. 10, 11. So gathering in his peace and mercies from a provoking people, Jer. 16. 15.