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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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And the Apostle tells you, wherein this his, not weakness did appear: saith he, He considered not his own body being now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: verse 19. It was seen in this, that his Faith carried him above the consideration of all impediments, that might lie in the way to the accomplishment of the promise.
And the Apostle tells you, wherein this his, not weakness did appear: saith he, He considered not his own body being now dead, when he was about an hundred yeers old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's wombe: verse 19. It was seen in this, that his Faith carried him above the consideration of all impediments, that might lie in the way to the accomplishment of the promise.
It is mere weakness of Faith, that makes a man lye poring on the difficulties and seeming impossibilities that lye upon the ⟨p. 7⟩promise. We think it our wisdom, and our strength, to consider, weigh and look into the bottom of oppositions, and temptations, that arise against the Promise. Perhaps it may be the strength of our fleshly, carnal Reason; but certainly, it is the weakness of our Faith: He that is strong in Faith, will not so much as debate or consider the things, that cast the greatest seeming improbability, yea impossibility, on the fulfilling of the promise. It will not afford them a Debate or Dispute of the Cause, nor any consideration, being not weak in Faith, he considered not.
It is meer weakness of Faith, that makes a man lye poering on the difficulties and seeming impossibilities that lye upon the ⟨p. 7⟩promise. We think it our wisdome, and our strength, to consider, weigh and look into the bottome of oppositions, and temptations, that arise against the Promise. Perhaps it may be the strength of our fleshly, carnal Reason; but certainly, it is the weakness of our Faith: He that is strong in Faith, will not so much as debate or consider the things, that cast the greatest seeming improbability, yea impossibility, on the fulfilling of the promise. It will not afford them a Debate or Dispute of the Cause, nor any consideration, being not weak in Faith, he considered not.