Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

'Tis for the Child's sake, the Woman is respited, not for her own; 'Tis for the Elects sake in the loins of transgressors, that they are a long time spared, and not for their own. Isa. 65.8, 9. As the new Wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, destroy it not for a blessing is in it; So will I do for my servants sake, that I may not destroy them all: as a Husband-man spares a Vine for some good clusters in it. He had spoke of vengeance before, yet he would reserve some, from whom he would bring forth those, that should be inheritors of his Mountains: that he might make up his Church of Judea, Jerusalem being a Mountainous place, and the type of the Church in all Ages. What is the reason he doth not level his Thunder at the heads of those, for whose destruction he receives so many Petitions from the Souls under the Altar; Rev. 6.9, 10. Because God had others to write a Testimony for him in their own blood, and perhaps out of the loins of those for whom vengeance was so earnestly supplicated;^* And God, as the Master of a Vessel, lies Patiently at Anchor, till the last Passenger he expects, be taken in.

'Tis for the Child's sake, the Woman is respited, not for her own; 'Tis for the Elects sake in the loyns of transgressors, that they are a long time spared, and not for their own. Isa. 65.8, 9. As the new Wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, destroy it not for a blessing is in it; So will I do for my servants sake, that I may not destroy them all: as a Husband-man spares a Vine for some good clusters in it. He had spoke of vengeance before, yet he would reserve some, from whom he would bring forth those, that should be inheritors of his Mountains: that he might make up his Church of Judea, Jerusalem being a Mountainous place, and the type of the Church in all Ages. What is the reason he doth not level his Thunder at the heads of those, for whose destruction he receives so many Petitions from the Souls under the Altar; Rev. 6.9, 10. Because God had others to write a Testimony for him in their own blood, and perhaps out of the loynes of those for whom vengeance was so earnestly supplicated;