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God's Work in Founding Zion

by John Owen

Preached before Parliament in 1656, this landmark sermon expounds Isaiah 14:32 to argue that God's sovereign purpose in all national upheaval is the founding and preservation of Zion — his covenant people. Owen calls England's rulers to make the common interest of all God's people their governing pole-star: securing liberty of conscience, composing divisions among believers, and uniting Protestant nations against a resurgent Antichristian power. A masterpiece of Puritan political theology at the height of the Cromwellian Protectorate.
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Table of contents

  1. 01 To His Highness the Lord Protector, and to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland & Ireland 623 words
  2. 02 Sermon 12,930 words
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God's Work in Founding Zion, AND His Peoples Duty thereupon. A SERMON PREACHED IN THE Abby Church at Westminster, at the opening of the PARLIAMENT Septemb. 17th 1656. By JOHN OWEN: a Servant of Jesus Christ in the Work of the Gospell.

Walk about Sion, and goe round about her, tell the Towers thereof. Mark you well her Bulwarks, consider her places, that you may tell it to the Generation following. For this God is our God for ever and ever; He will be our guide even to death. — Psalm 48:12, 13, 14.

OXFORD, Printed by LEON: LICHFIELD Printer to the University, for THO: ROBINSON 1656.

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Wednesday the 17 of September 1656.

Ordered by the Parliament, That Mr. Maidston, and the Lieutenant of the Tower, doe give the hearty thanks of the House to Doctor Owen, Deane of Christ-Church, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, for his great pains taken in his Sermon preached this day in the Abby Church at Westminster, before His Highness the Lord Protector, and the Members Elected to Sit this present Parliament. And that he be desired to print his Sermon. And that no man presume to print it without his Leave.

Hen: Scobell Clerk of the Parliament.

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