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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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Hereupon he concludes that Discourse with these two positive Assertions:
1 That for what is past, every mouth must be stopped, and all the world become guilty before God. Chap. 3. v. 19.
2 For the future, though they should labour to amend their ways, and improve their Assistances and Privileges to a better advantage then formerly, yet by the deeds of the Law, shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God. v. 20.
2 For the future, though they should labour to amend their wayes, and improve their Assistances and Priviledges to a better advantage then formerly, yet by the deeds of the Law, shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God. v. 20.
Now it being the main drift of the Apostle, in this Epistle, and in his whole Employment, to manifest that God hath not shut up all the Sons of men, hopeless and remediless under this Condition; he immediately, discovers and opens the rich Supply, which God in Free-grace hath made and provided, for the delivery of his Own from this calamitous estate, even by the Righteousness of Faith in Christ, which he unfoldeth, asserteth, proves, and vindicates from Objections to the end of the 3d Chapter.