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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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2 Engage your hearts against all such ways for the future: Say unto God, How faithful art thou in all thy ways! How able to perform all thy Promises! How hast thou established thy Word in Heaven and Earth! Who would not put their Trust in thee? We desire to be ashamed, That ever we should admit in our hearts, the least staggering at the stability of thy Word.
2 Engage your hearts against all such wayes for the future: Say unto God, How faithful art thou in all thy wayes! How able to perform all thy Promises! How hast thou established thy Word in Heaven and Earth! Who would not put their Trust in thee? We desire to be ashamed, That ever we should admit in our hearts, the least staggering at the stability of thy Word.
3 Act as men bottomed upon unshaken things: that are not at all moved by the greatest appearing Oppositions: He that believeth, will not make haste: be not hasty in your Resolves, in any distress. Waite for the Accomplishment of the Vision, for it will come. So long as you are in the way of God, and do the Work of God, let not so much as your Desires be too hasty, after appearing Strengthnings, and Assistance. Whence ⟨p. 54⟩is it that there is amongst us, such bleating after the Compliance of this or that Party of the Sons of men, perhaps priding themselves in our Actings upon Unbelief; as though we proclaimed, That without such and such, we cannot be protected in the Things of God. Let us (I beseech you) live above those things, that are unworthy of the great Name, that is called upon us.
3 Act as men bottomed upon unshaken things: that are not at all moved by the greatest appearing Oppositions: He that believeth, will not make haste: be not hasty in your Resolves, in any distress. Waite for the Accomplishment of the Vision, for it will come. So long as you are in the way of God, and do the Work of God, let not so much as your Desires be too hasty, after appearing Strengthnings, and Assistance. Whence