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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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Be it thus, or otherwise, by what way soever the people had their Interest therein; certain it is, that for the sins of Manasseh, one way or other, made their own, they were destroyed: And therefore these things being written for our example, it cannot but be of great concernment to us, to know what were those sins which wrapped up the people of God in irrevocable destruction: Now these the holy Ghost fully manifesteth in the story of the life and reign of this Manasseh, and they may all be reduced unto 2. chief heads.
Be it thus, or otherwise, by what way soever the people had their Interest therein; certaine it is, that for the sinnes of Manasseh, one way or other, made their owne, they were destroyed: And therefore these things being written for our example, it cannot but be of great concernment to us, to know what were those sinnes which wrapt up the people of God in irrevocable destruction: Now these the holy Ghost fully manifesteth in the story of the life and reign of this Manasseh, and they may all be reduced unto 2. chiefe heads.
1. False worship or superstition: He built high places, made Altars for Baal, and a Grove as did Ahab, 2 Kings 25. 2.
2. Cruelty: He shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem with blood from one end of it to another, vers. 16.
2. Cruelty: Hee shedde innocent blood very much, till hee had filled Jerusalem with blood from one end of it to another, vers. 16.