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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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I cannot but observe, That this sighing mournful complaint of Abraham, hath much infirmity, and something of diffidence, mixed with it. He shakes in the very bottom of his soul, that improbabilities were growing up as he thought to impossibilities, against him, in the way of the Promise: Yet hence also mark these two things:
1 That he doth not repine in himself, and keep up his burning thoughts in his breast, but sweetly breaths out the burden of his Soul, into the bosom of his God: Lord God, (saith he) what wilt thou give me seeing I go childless? It is of sincere Faith, to unlade our unbelief, in the bosom of our God.
1 That he doth not repine in himself, and keep up his burning thoughts in his brest, but sweetly breaths out the burden of his Soul, into the bosome of his God: Lord God, (saith he) what wilt thou give me seeing I go childless? It is of sincere Faith, to unlade our unbeleif, in the bosome of our God.
2 That God takes not his Servant at the Advantage of his complaining and diffidence: but lets that pass, until having renewed the Promise to him, and settled his Faith, then he gives in his Testimony, That he believed God. The Lord overlooks the weakness, and causeless wailings of his, takes them at the best, and then gives his witness to them.
2 That God takes not his Servant at the Advantage of his complaining and diffidence: but lets that pass, until having renewed the Promise to him, and settled his Faith, then he gives in his Testimony, That he beleived God. The Lord overlooks the weakness, and causless wailings of his, takes them at the best, and then gives his witnesse to them.