CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

4. As the kind so the continuance God will not let it abide any longer then it doth his work, These horse-leeches shall suck no longer, then the corrupt blood lasteth; The devil shall throw some of you into prison ten days, Rev. 2.10. See there how God orders it first it's but some of them, and then into prison, there is the kind, for ten days there is the continuance, which made the Psalmist say, The rod of the wicked shall not always rest upon the back of the Righteous; Psal. 125.3. It's true the people of God have many times thought their deliverance too long, Will the Lord cast off for ever? Hath he forgotten to be gracious? Thus they expostulate and complain, but God at another time s•• •he would hasten it in due time, Isa. 60.22. and he calls it but a moment, •••rein he had hid his face from them, Isa. 54.7. although it was seventy years; So that the flesh saith one thing and the Spirit of God another; Know then that thy exercise is for a continued or appointed time, God hath set bounds to these waters, and therefore be not discouraged under them.

4. As the kinde so the continuance God will not let it abide any longer then it doth his work, These horse-leeches shall suck no longer, then the corrupt bloud lasteth; The devil shall throw some of you into prison ten daies, Rev. 2.10. See there how God orders it first it's but some of them, and then into prison, there is the kinde, for ten daies there is the continuance, which made the Psalmist say, The rod of the wicked shall not alwaies rest upon the back of the Righteous; Psal. 125.3. It's true the people of God have many times thought their deliverance too long, Will the Lord cast off for ever? Hath he forgotten to be gracious? Thus they expostulate and complain, but God at another time s•• he would hasten it in due time,