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The steadfastness of promises, and the sinfulness of staggeringThe stedfastness of promises, and the sinfulness of staggering
The steadfastness of promises, and the sinfulness of staggering: opened in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster before the Parliament Febr. 28. 1649. Being a day set apart for solemn humiliation throughout the nation. By John Owen minister of the Gospel.The stedfastness of promises, and the sinfulness of staggering: opened in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster before the Parliament Febr. 28. 1649. Being a day set apart for solemn humiliation throughout the nation. By John Owen minister of the Gospel.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
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What is there in Heaven or Earth, but God and his ministering Spirits, that hath not at one time or other, stood up to it's utmost Opposition, for the frustrating of the Word, wherein some or other of the ⟨p. 34⟩Saints of God have put their trust? Devils in their Temptations, Baits, Subtleties, Accusations, and Oppositions: Men in their Counsels, Reasonings, Contrivances, Interests, Dominions, Combinations, Armies, Multitudes, and the utmost of their Endeavours: the whole frame of Nature, in it's Primitive Instituted Course, Fire, Water, Day, Night, Age, Sickness, Death; all in their Courses have fought against the Accomplishment of the Promises: And what have they obtained by all their Contendings? All disappointed, frustrated, turned back, changed, and served only to make the Mercy of the Promise, more amiable and glorious.
What is there in Heaven or Earth, but God and his ministring Spirits, that hath not at one time or other, stood up to it's utmost Opposition, for the frustrating of the Word, wherein some or other of the ⟨p. 34⟩Saints of God have put their trust? Divels in their Temptations, Baits, Subtilties, Accusations, and Oppositions: Men in their Counsels, Reasonings, Contrivances, Interests, Dominions, Combinations, Armies, Multitudes, and the utmost of their Endeavours: the whole frame of Nature, in it's Primitive Instituted Course, Fire, Water, Day, Night, Age, Sickness, Death; all in their Courses have fought against the Accomplishment of the Promises: And what have they obtained by all their Contendings? All disappointed, frustrated, turned back, changed, and served only to make the Mercy of the Promise, more amiable and glorious.
I would willingly Illustrate this Demonstration with an Instance, that the Almighty, all conquering Power that is in the Promise, settling all staggering upon it's own Basis of UNBELIEF, might be the more evident.