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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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1 Will it be for his Honour, That the People whom he hath sought to himself with so high a hand, should at the very entrance of his taking Possession, be leavened with those high and heavenly Notions, which have an open, and experimented tendency to Earthly, Fleshly, Dunghill Practises? Or,
2 Will it be for the Credit and Honour of your Profession of the GOSPEL, That such a breach should be under your hand? That it should be (as it were) by your means? Will it not be a Sword, and an Arrow, and a Maul in the hands of your Observers? Who can bear the just Scandal that would accrue? Scandal to the Magistrates, Scandal to the Ministers of this Generation, in neglecting such an Opportunity of advancing the GOSPEL; sleeping all the day, whilst others sow Tares.
2 Will it be for the Credit and Honour of your Profession of the GOSPEL, That such a breach should be under your hand? That it should be (as it were) by your means? Will it not be a Sword, and an Arrow, and a Maul in the hands of your Observers? Who can bear the just Scandal that would accrew? Scandal to the Magistrates, Scandal to the Ministers of this Generation, in neglecting such an Opportunity of advancing the GOSPEL; sleeping all the day, whilest others sow Tares.
3 Where will be the hoped, the expected Consolation of this great Affair, when the Testimony and Pledge of the peculiar Presence of CHRIST amongst us, upon such an ISSUE, shall be wanting?
3 Where will be the hoped, the expected Consolation of this great Affaire, when the Testimony and Pledge of the peculiar Presence of CHRIST amongst us, upon such an ISSUE, shall be wanting?