A Commentarie Or Exposition Upon the Prophecie of Habakkuk: Together with Many Usefull and Very Seasonable Observations

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Infirmities of Gods fervants twofold
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Grief mingled with faith is no
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Nothing ought to be fo dear to us as the glory of God
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To know the glory of God here on earth we muſt obſerve the courſe
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Gods mercie and our obedience are motives of reestablishing his pro
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Hatred a canfe of contention
60
The foul of prayer is the holy zeal of him that prayeth
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God can make good use of the vices of men and make wicked men ſerve
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lence
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God is author of all actions but not of the evill of them
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All evill actions are justly judged by the intentions of their agents
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Riligion is the knot of true Union that knitteth us to God and uniteth
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Out of natural and moral ways of life there is a wifedome of God to
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Ungodly men have no bowels
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Iniquity knoweth no meaſure
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God foreknoweth the fins of men
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Gods love to his Church is eternal as himselfi
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Religion hath the bowels oj compaſſion and they have no Religion
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God loves to be follicited for mercy
101
Faiths greatneſſe and its effects
103
Gods children in afflictions are not difcouraged in their faith of Gods
107
Good nfe is to be made of fome temptations
109
How far we may complain to God against our brethren
111
Gods eyes are pure
113
Description of Repentance
115
Calvins judgment of Habakkuk Cautions to order and regulate our judgment and life concerning page
117
and
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Charity is the bond of peace only to the children of peace
129
The effectual feurent prayer of a righteousman prevaileth much
139
God will have his Church taught his ways in all ages thereof
154
Babylon taken by storme on a day of feaſting
157
Distreffing of the poor a greivous and provoking
159
How God is faid to repent
165
HHoes God as is faid to have divided the Land of Canaan amongst
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God fignifieth his will in divers ways p 167 and his will is two
169
And of Canaan not above 300 miles in lengthand 160 in bredtḥ
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We ought not be too buſte to fearch into the wayes of God to know
174
Rich mens duties to the poor
177
The poor are under Gods protection and his own flesh
186
God taketh offence at fuch as are lifted up
188
Gods fervants fight against fin by prayer
191
How many ways fpiritual enemies affault the Church
205
God is the author of faith
208
Salva
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Prayer what it
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Prayer the Word and the Sacraments are means to preferve faith
228
J Erufalem and the Temple Spall tye defolate untill the second coming
229
The Saints of God have their forrows on earth yet they always rejoyce
231
Seekers of ftrife condemned
234
whom God pardoneth Sathan tempteth moſt
284
God walketh with the righteous and contrary to the unrigh
287
The delivery of Gods Church and his vengeance upon her enemies
294
Godis glorious and jealous of his glory
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God punisheth fin by fin
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Satans Suggestions that God is mercifulanimates finners to do evil 58
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Judgment beginneth at the house of
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Ain repetitions not to be uſed in Prayer
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In reading of holy Scripture we ought carefully to observe what is ſpo
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The Contents of the third Chapter
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Complaint is a part of prayer 31 the reasons thereof 32
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Gad doth hear the complaints of fuch as have just caufe to complaine
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Man is mutable God unchangably just
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Illgotten goods bring fuch a fin upon a man as cannot be purged
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Gods justice doth not spare his own peopleif they do provoke him 63
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Affection of love moſt vehement in a woman
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WE ought to give the whole glory and praife for all good to
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Gontempt is a provocation which moveth God to fevere judgments 72
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Crie of blood
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Joy dilateth the heart
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Though the Church of God live under the craffe for a time it shall
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Devill author of Idolatry temptor to it and promoter of it 93
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God never layeth his rod upon thofe creatures which he hath ordained
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We must fearch out and confeſſe the true caufe of all the good that
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The truth of God is a good ground becauſe the word of God is a fure
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When God undertaketh a work he accommodateth all fit means
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What uſe may be made of Davids Pfalmes in our frequent reading
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Godis above all fecond causes
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Ministers ought to be first Seers and then Speakers
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Chriſt was alwayes before the Gafpel andeven from the beginning
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God hath taken upon himself the care of the prefervation of his Church
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When we pray that Gods will may be done we must also pray that
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Godin Chrift is the rest of bis Church
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Commination of Gods judgments makes the Church of God to fear 174
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Diftrust in God the mother fin of all evill mayes 267
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Doctrine of faith most neceffary to ſalvation 205
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Pray fing of God in Hymns and Songs ancient and much used in
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Xerxes angry with the feacaufeth it to be beaten with stripes 102
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TitleA Commentarie Or Exposition Upon the Prophecie of Habakkuk: Together with Many Usefull and Very Seasonable Observations
Early English Books Online / EEBO
AuthorEdward Marbury
PublisherPrinted T.R. and E.M. for Octavian Pullen, and are to be sold at his shop, 1650
Original fromOxford University
Digitized15 Aug 2006
Length566 pages
  
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