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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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Isa. 7. Ahaz being afraid of the Combination of Syria and Ephraim against him, received a promise of deliverance by Isaiah, verse 7. whereupon the Prophet tells him and all Judah, That if they will not believe, surely they shall not be established, verse 9. He doth not say, If Damascus and Ephraim be not broken, you shall not be established; no, the stick is not there: The fear that you will not be established, ariseth merely from your unbelief, that keeps you off from closing with the Promise, which would certainly bring you establishment.
Isa. 7. Ahaz being afraid of the Combination of Syria and Ephraim against him, received a promise of deliverance by Isaiah, verse 7. whereupon the Prophet tells him and all Judah, That if they will not believe, surely they shall not be established, verse 9. He doth not say, If Damascus and Ephraim be not broken, you shall not be established; no, the stick is not there: The fear that you will not be established, ariseth meerly from your unbelief, that keeps you off from closing with the Promise, which would certainly bring you establishment.
And this is the sole Reason the Apostle gives, why the word of Promise being Preached, becomes unprofitable; even because of unbelief: It was not mixed with faith, Heb. 4. 2.
But these things will be more clear under the Demonstrations of the Point; which are Two:
But these things will be more cleer under the Demonstrations of the Point; which are Two: