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. In what particulars this word in the Text is used in the holy Scriptures, for ¹we are apt to look only to bodily deliverances, to external mercies. Whereas we shall find a soul deliverance, and spiritual deliverance, principally spoken of in Gods word, and for which Christ is called the deliverer, so that the consideration of this should raise us up into spiritual and heavenly Meditations. And

1. In what particulars this word in the Text is used in the holy Scriptures, for ¹we are apt to look only to bodily deliverances, to externall mercies. Whereas we shall find a soul deliverance, and spirituall deliverance, principally spoken of in Gods word, and for which Christ is called the deliverer, so that the consideration of this should raise us up into spirituall and heavenly Meditations. And

1. 1What deliverances God works for us.What deliverances God workes for us.

1. For a bodily deliverance. This Paul speaketh off, 2 Tim. 4. 17. I was ¹delivered [Greek or Hebrew], from the mouth of the Lion, a Lion, and the mouth of the Lion, he was in the very mouth, little hope of salvation. When the danger is so extreme, whether he meant it particularly of Nero, or whether by that he would allegorically express some eminent danger, to be sure he meaneth Gods helping hand, and that in bodily misery. Thus also Paul 2 Tim. 3. 11 enumerating several persecutions, he concludeth, but out of them all God delivered me. Although therefore spiritual evils are judged by the godly the greatest evils, and spiritual deliverances the greatest deliverances; yet the godly being men, consisting of flesh and blood, they also are sensible of external evils, and thereupon do greatly need Gods mercies towards them in their outward deliverances. Davids Psalms do for the most part glorify and praise God in respect of temporal deliverances; and therefore such Psalms have the most powerful influence, and do most affect the heart, when we come to be in the same dangers and fears with him; so that in all our outward deliverances we are to acknowledge God only; not our own wisdom or our own power. Not unto us Lord, but unto thy name be all glory given.