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…

For by this expression Paul doth denote the utmost extremity; if God can and will do the greatest, how much more easy is it to him to do the less? Though nothing is hard to God, for he doth great things as easily as less things; so that this is brought in as unspeakable comfort to the godly who are apt to say; This trouble is so great; this strait is so heavy, that I have no hope, my soul doth sink under it. Oh remember, it cannot be more desperate then to be a dead man, and yet God doth recover out of that condition: He doth not say, God that healeth the sick; God that comforteth those which are in darkness; ⟨p. 326⟩God who raiseth up those that are cast down. Though in other places, these things are attributed to God, but God who raiseth the dead, which is far more then the former.

For by this expession Paul doth denote the utmost extremity; if God can and will do the greatest, how much more easie is it to him to do the less? Though nothing is hard to God, for he doth great things as easily as less things; so that this is brought in as unspeakeable comfort to the godly who are apt to say; This trouble is so great; this streight is so heavy, that I have no hope, my soul doth sink under it. Oh remember, it cannot be more desperate then to be a dead man, and yet God doth recover out of that condition: He doth not say, God that healeth the sick; God that comforteth those which are in darkness; ⟨p. 326⟩God who raiseth up those that are cast down. Though in other places, these things are attributed to God, but God who raiseth the dead, which is far more then the former.

To prosecute this, let us consider wherein this Doctrine is true, both literally, and metaphorically; and then how much is comprehended in the expression. For the