An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

1. He may justly expect Gods assisting of him with such qualifications of zeal and courage, as are necessary to that work. Thus the Apostle speaking of all the Ministers of the Gospel, saith, We have not received the spirit of fear, but of power and love, and a sound mind, 2 Tim. 1. 7. It's God that giveth us such a spirit, where God calleth to an Office; there he giveth suitable assistance. For as it is with the general Call of Christians, because God calleth them to holiness, therefore he furnisheth every one with grace, without which happiness cannot be enjoyed: So it is in peculiar special Offices; if in civil, he gives Saul another spirit, and much more in holy functions. Hence he touched Isaiah's lips with a coal of fire from the altar. Though Jeremiah pleaded he was a child, yet God promised to enable him; And when Moses did again and again excuse his inability to the Office God put upon him, The wrath of God was kindled against him, Exod. 4. 11. saying, Who hath made mans mouth? who maketh the dumb, or deaf, &c? Have not I the Lord? If then God calleth, he can give wisdom, mouth and spirit, such as none shall be able to withstand. Oh then, what a comfortable support is here! When thou art dejected under the thoughts of thy insufficiency and weakness, thinking thou shalt fail under the burden, and prove a reproach to the Office: Yet because God hath called thee, thou mayest embolden thy self, thou mayest say, Lord, I cam not hither of my own will, I am not in this place and Office by my own seeking, but all is of thy will and ordering, and therefore do thou own thy own servant. Though I am weak, thou art not: who is the Father of Spirits, but thou alone? Therefore under all imperfections, do thou run unto God, who hath set thee in that Office.

1. He may justly expect Gods assisting of him with such qualifications of zeal and courage, as are necessary to that work. Thus the Apostle speaking of all the Ministers of the Gospel, saith, We have not received the spirit of fear, but of power and love, and a sound mind, 2 Tim. 1. 7. It's God that giveth us such a spirit, where God calleth to an Office; there he giveth suitable assistance. For as it is with the general Call of Christians, because God calleth them to holiness, therefore he furnisheth every one with grace, without which happiness cannot be enjoyed: So it is in peculiar special Offices; if in civil, he gives Saul another spirit, and much more in holy functions. Hence he touched Isaiah's lips with a coal of fire from the altar. Though Jeremiah pleaded he was a child, yet God promised to enable him; And when Moses did again and again excuse his inability to the Office God put upon him, The wrath of God was kindled against him,