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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90266	Eben-ezer a memoriall of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition on the first ten verses of the third chapter of the prophesie of Habakkuk in two sermons. The first preached at Colchester before his Excellency on a day of thanksgiving for the surrender thereof. The other at Rumford unto the committee who were imprisoned by the enemy Sep. 28. a day set apart unto thanksgiving for their deliverance. / By John Ovven pastor of the church of God which is at Coggeshall.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1648 (1648)	Wing O742; Thomason E477_8; ESTC R203085	54,742	64

4. 7. The most Mountainous opposers shall be levelled when the Spirit of God sets in for that purpose There is a strength in every promise and ingagement of God unto his people that is able to carry the whole frame of Heaven and Earth before it If they can believe all things are possible to them that believe When the Decree is to bring forth the fruit of the promise it will overturne Empires destroy Nations divide Seas ruine Armies open Prisons break Chaines and Fetters and beare down all before it As the winde shut up in the Earth will shake the pillars as it were of its mighty body but it will find or make a passage The least promise of deliverance if the season thereof be come though it were shut up under strong and mighty powers crafty counsells dungeons and prisons like the doores and lasting barres of the Earth the truth and power of God shall make them all to tremble and give birth to his peoples deliverance Have we seene nothing of this in our days No Seas divided no Jordans driven back no Mountaines revelled no Hills made to tremble whence then was the late confusion of Armies casting down of mighty ones reviving of Dead bones opening of prison-doores bringing out the captive appointed to be slaine Is it not from hence that nothing can stand against the breakingout of a promise in its appointed season was the Lord displeased with the Rivers was his Anger against the Walls and Houses that he rode upon his Horses and Chariots of Salvation Let Faith be strengthened in an evill time Poore distressed soule all the difficulty of thy deliverance lies in thine own bosome If the streames of thy unbeliefe within be not stronger then all Seas of opposition without all will be easy O learne to stand still with quietnesse between an Host of Aegyptians and a raging Sea to see the salvation of God Be quiet in prison between your friends Bullets and your enemies Swords God can God will make a way If it were not more hard with us to believe wonders then it is to the promise to effect wonders for us they would be no wonders so dayly so continually would they be wrought God can make use of any of his creatures to be chariots of Salvation This is the other side of that Doctrine which we gathered from v. 5. Winds and Clouds shall obey him z Ravens shall feed Elijah that will not feed their own young The Sea shall open for Israel and returne upon the Egyptians And this both in an Ordinary way as Hos. 2. 21 22. and in an extraordinary way as before So many creatures as God hath made so many instruments of good hath he for his people this is further confirmed v. 9. Thy Bow was made quite naked according to the Oathes of the tribes thy word Sela thou diddest cleave the earth with Rivers With nakednesse thy Bow was made naked The rest is Elepticall and well supplyed in the Translation The Verse hath two parts 1. A generall proposition Thy Bow was made c. 2. A particular confirmation of that proposition by instance Thou diddest cleave the earth with Rivers The proposition holds out two things 1. What God did he made his Bow quite naked 2. The Rule he proceeded by herein according to the oaths of the Tribes even his word The assertion of this Verse is not of some particular act or work as the former but a generall head or fountaine of those particular works which are ennumerated in the following Verses 1. A Bow is a weapon of War an instrument of death and being ascribed to God after the manner of men holds out his strength power might and efficacy to do what ever he pleaseth And this is said to be quite naked when a man goes about to use his Bow he pulls it out of his Quiver and so makes it naked The exercising of Gods Power is the making naked of his Bow This he did in all those wonders wherein he stretched out his hand in bringing his people into the promised Land here pointed at And it is said that with nakednesse it was made naked because of those very high dispensations and manifestations of his Almighty Power This is the making naked of his Bow 2. For the Rule of this it is the Oathes of the Tribes or as afterward his word The Oathes of the Tribes that is the Oaths made to them the Word he stood ingaged to them in The promise God made by Oath unto Abraham that he would give him the Land of Canaan for an inheritance even to him and his posterity Gen. 12. 7 13 14 15. is here intimated This promise was often renewed to him and the following Patriarches Hence it is called Oathes though but the same promise often renewed And it had the nature of an Oath because it was made a Covenant Now it was all for the benefit of the severall Tribes in respect of actuall possession and was lastly renewed to them Exod. 3. 17. Hence called the Oaths of the Tribes not which they sware to the Lord but which the Lord sware to them So afterwards it is called his word Thy word This then is the purport of this generall proposition O Lord according as thou promisedst and ingagedst thy selfe by Covenant to Abraham Isaac and Jacob with their posterity that thou wouldest give them the Land of Canaan to be theirs for an inheritance so by the dispensation of thy mighty power thou hast fully accomplished it and this he layeth down for the supportment of faith in a time of trouble The words would afford many observations I shall insist only on one The Lord will certainely make good all his promises and ingagements to his people though it cost him the making of his Bow quite naked the manifestation of his power in the utmost dispensations thereof Gods workings are squared to his ingagements This is still the close of all gratious issues of providence God hath done all according as be promised Josh. 22. 4. 2 Sam. 7. 21. He brought out his people of old with a mighty hand with temptations signes and wonders and a stretched out arme and all because he would keepe the Oath which he had sworne and the ingagement which he had made to their Fathers Deut. 7. 8. What obstacles soever may lie in the way he hath done it he will do it Take one instance particular places are too many to be insisted on It was the purpose of his heart to bring his Elect home to himselfe from their forlorne lost condition This he engageth himselfe to do Gen. 3. 15. assuring Adam of a recovery from the misery he was involved in by Satans prevalency This surely is no easy work If the Lord will have it done he must lay out all his Attributes in the demonstration of them to the uttermost His wisdome and power must bow their shoulders as it were in Christ unto it he was the