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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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Now what are the ends of this Generation of Fighters against this brazen wall, and how distant from those of the Lords? They consult to cast him down from his excellency, whom God will exalt, Psal. 62. 4. They think not as the Lord, neither doth their heart mean so, but it is in their heart to destroy and to cut off, Isa. 10. 7. To satisfy their own corrupt lusts, ambition, avarice▪ revenge, superstition, contempt of Gods people, because his, hatred of the yoke of the LORD, fleshly Interests; even for these and such like Ends as these, is their undertaking.
Now what are the ends of this Generation of Fighters against this brazen wall, and how distant from those of the Lords? They consult to cast him downe from his excellency, whom God will exalt, Psal. 62. 4. They thinke not as the Lord, neither doth their heart meane so, but it is in their heart to destroy and to cut off, Isa. 10. 7. To satisfie their owne corrupt lusts, ambition, avarice▪ revenge, superstition, contempt of Gods people, because his, hatred of the yoak of the LORD, fleshly Interests; even for these and such like Ends as these, is their undertaking.
Thus though there be a concurrence of God and Man in the same thing, yet considering the distance of their Principles, Rules, Actings, and Ends; It is apparent that Man doth sinfully, what the Lord doth judicially; which being an answer to the former Objection, I return to give in some Uses to the Point.
Thus though there be a concurrence of God and Man in the same thing, yet considering the distance of their Principles, Rules, Actings, and Ends; It is apparent that Man doth sinfully, what the Lord doth judicially; which being an answer to the former Objection, I returne to give in some Ʋses to the Point.