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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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These Demonstrations of Gods Al-sufficiency he considereth in peculiar reference to what he was to believe; to wit, That he might be the Father of many Nations, vers. 11. of the Jews according to the flesh, of Jews and Gentiles, according to the Faith whereof we speak.
1 For the first, his Body being now dead, and Sarahs womb dead, vers. 19. he rests on God as quickening the dead, in believing that he shall be the father of many Nations.
1 For the first, his Body being now dead, and Sarahs wombe dead, vers. 19. he rests on God as quickening the dead, in believing that he shall be the father of many Nations.
2 For the other, that he should be a Father of the Gentiles by Faith, the holy Ghost witnesseth that they were not a people, Hos. 2. 23. the implanting of them in ⟨p. 5⟩his stock, must be by a power, that calleth things that are not, as though they were: giving a new nature, and being unto them, which before they had not.