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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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3, The quiet and peace of the Nation, which ye regard as Rulers, as it stands in subordination to the kingdom of Christ, comes also under the Promise, for which take that of Jeremiah 30. 20, 21.
These being your three main aims, let your eye be fixed on these three, or the like Promises; for in the Demonstration and the Use of the Point, I shall carry along all Three together: desiring that what is instanced ⟨p. 12⟩in any one, may be always extended to both the other.
These being your three main ayms, let your eye be fixed on these three, or the like Promises; for in the Demonstration and the Use of the Point, I shall carry along all Three together: desiring that what is instanced ⟨p. 12⟩in any one, may be alwayes extended to both the other.
2 What is it to stagger at the Promise: He staggered not. [Greek or Hebrew] he disputed not; [Greek or Hebrew] is properly to make use of our own Judgement and Reason, in discerning of things, of what sort they be. It is sometime rendered, to doubt; Matth. 21. 21. If you have faith [Greek or Hebrew], and doubt not; that is, not use arguings and reasonings in your selves concerning the Promise and things promised. Sometimes it simply denotes to discern a thing as it is: so the word is used