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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. A continuance of the creatures being and life; Upholding him by the word of his power, Heb. 1. 3. When he might take him off in a moment: Enduring them with much long suffering, Rom. 9. 22. When he might cut him off as he did she opposers of Elijah, with fire from heaven, 2 Kings 1. 12.
1. A continuance of the creatures being and life; Ʋpholding him by the word of his power, Heb. 1. 3. When he might take him off in a moment: Enduring them with much long suffering, Rom. 9. 22. When he might cut him off as he did she opposers of Elijah, with fire from heaven, 2 Kings 1. 12.
2. A continuance of power of operation to them, when he could make their hands to wither like Jeroboam's, when they go about to strike, 1 Kings 13. 4. Or their hearts, to dye within them like Nabals, when they intend to be Churlish, 1 Sam. 25. 37. but he raiseth them up, or makes them to stand, that they may oppose, Rom. 9. 11.
2. A continuance of power of operation to them, when he could make their hands to wither like Jeroboams, when they goe about to strike, 1 Kings 13. 4. Or their hearts, to dye within them like Nabals, when they intend to be Churlish,