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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

power of God and the wisdome of God His ingaged Love must be carried along through so many secret mysterious marvels as the Angels themselves desire to looke into and shall for ever adore Though the effecting of it required that which man could not do and God could not suffer yet his wisedome will find out a way that he shall both do it and suffer it who is both God and Man To make good his engagement to his elect he spared not his onely Son and in him were hid and by him layd out all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge Now this is a president of Gods proceeding in all other engagements whatsoever What ever it cost him he will spare nothing to make them good to the uttermost He is our Rock and his worke is perfect A good man if he want not power will go through with his serious promises though he be ingaged to his own hurt Psal. 15. 4. The power of the mighty God is serviceable to his will to the utmost He cannot will what he cannot do His will and power are essentially the same And his power shall not be wanting to execute what his goodnesse hath moved him to engage unto for his own glory Deut. 32. 4. Hee is the rock and his worke is perfect all his wayes are judgement a God of truth and without iniquity Here are many Attributes of God to make good this one thing that his worke is perfect His {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} selfe-sufficiency Perfection Righteousnesse I will pitch on One He is a God of Truth So he is againe called Psal. 31. 5. and in other places The Truth of God in his promises and engagements requires an accomplishment of them what ever it cost what power soever is required thereunto This the Saints make their bottome to seeke it Remember thy loving kindnesse which thou swarest in thy Truth Psal. 89. 4. It is impossible but that should come to passe which thou hast sworne in thy Truth No stronger plea then Remember the word wherein thou hast caused thy servants to put their trust Jacob sayes he is lesse then all the Mercy and all the Truth of God Gen. 32. 10. He sees Gods Truth in all his Mercy by causing all things to come to passe which he had promised him It is true some particular promises have their conditions whose truth consists not in the Relation between the word and the thing unlesse the condition intercede But the great condition under the Gospell being only the good of them to whom any ingagement is made we may positively lay down that Gods Truth requires the Accomplishment of every engagement for his peoples good It is neither Mountaine nor Hill King Kingdome nor Nation Hell nor Mortality nor all combined that can stand in the way to hinder it His people stand in need of all that God hath engaged himselfe to them for Gods promises are the just measure of his peoples wants Whatever he hath promised that his people do absolutely want And whatsoever they want that he hath promised Our Wants and his promises are every way commensurate If thou knowest not what thou standest in need of search the Promises and see What ever God hath said he will do for thee that thou hast absolute need should be done Or if thou art not so well acquainted with the promises search thine own wants what thou standest absolutely in need of for thy good that assuredly God hath promised If then this be the case of engagements they shall all be made good Thinke you will God let his people want that which they have absolute necessity of By absolute necessity I meane such as is indispensible as to their present estate and occasions That may be of necessity in one Generation which is not in another according to the severall imployments we are called to Does God call forth his Saints to execute vengeance upon the Heathen and punishments upon the people to bind their Kings with chaines and their Nobles with fetters of Iron to execute upon them the judgement written as Psal. 149. 7 8 9 doth he bring them forth to burne the whore to fight with the Beast and overcome him and his followers it is of indispensable necessity that he give them glorious assistance in their undertakings They shall be assisted protected carried on though it cost him the making of his Bow quite naked According to the severall conditions he calls them to the severall issues of Providence which he will have them serve in so want they his Appearance in them with them for them and it shall be present Let them be assured they are in his way and then though some prove false and treacherous some base and cowardly though many combine and Associate themselves against them in many places in all places though whole Kingdomes and mighty Armies appeare for their ruine be they reviled and clamoured by all round about them all is one Help they need and help they shall have or God will make his Bow quite naked This day is this Doctrine fulfilled before us Gods Bow made quite naked according to his Word We are lesse then all the Truth hee hath shewed unto us Though great working and mighty power hath been required such as he hath not shewen in our dayes nor in the dayes of our Fathers yet the Lord hath not stood at it for his words sake wherein he hath made us put our trust I speake of the Generall mercies we have received The surrender of Colchester the particular celebrated this day though marching in the Reare for time is for the weight in the Van A mercy of the first magnitude Essex hath seene more power in a three moneths recovery then in the protection of six years That the mouths of men are stopped and their faces filled with shame who made it their trade to revile and threaten the Saints of God that the adverse strength which hath lien hid these seven years should be drawn forth united and broken to pieces that the people of God divided and mutually exasperated through their abuse of peace should by the sword of a common enemy and the help of a common friend have their wrath abated their counsells united and their persons set in a hopefull way of closing or forbearance that God by their owne counsells should shut up men collected from su dry parts to ruine others in a City with Gates and Walls for their own ruine that they should deny peace tendred upon such conditions because of the exigencies of the time as might have left them power as well as will for a further mischiefe that such salvation should go forth in other parts as that the proceedings here should not be interrupted that the bitter service which men here underwent should ever and anon be sweetned with refreshing tidings from other places to keepe up theie spirits in wet watching cold and losse of bloud All these