A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

three days the Natural Body lay, three days and an half only the Mystical shall lye before a full revival.

5. God never wanted instruments for his Church in the due season. If Abel be butchered by Cain, God will raise up Seth in his place, to bring men to a public form of worship, Gen. 4.26. If Nebuchadnezzar be the axe to hew down Jerusalem, Cyrus shall be the instrument to build her up; when his time is come he will not want an Ezra and Nehemiah to rear her walls, nor be wanting to them to inspire them with courage, and assist their labour in spite of the adversaries that would give check-mate to the work If Stephen be stoned by the Jews, he will cull out Paul an a better of that murder to be a preacher of the Gospel, and he that was all fire against it, shall become as great a flame for the propagation of it; one Phoenix shall arise out of the ashes of another. When Arianism, like a deluge overflowed the world, the Church wanted not an Athanasius to stand in the gap, and be a Champion for the truth of the Deity of Christ. When enemies rise up against the Church from all ⟨p. 28⟩quarters to afflict it, God raised others from all quarters to defend it, Zach. 1.19, 20. Yea those that have been the instruments to support the Antichristian state against her, by giving their power and strength to the beast, shall turn their arms against that which they supported, to make her desolate, eat her flesh and burn her with fire, Rev. 17.12, 13, 16. 'Tis the same Christ that is King in his Church, and the Spirit is not dispossessed of his office to furnish men with gifts for the defence and increase of it; he is still a spirit of government in Magistrates, and the spirit of fire in Ministers for the Churches interest. Now since the Church hath maintained its standing longer than any other Empire, & that in the midst of its enemies, and hath been both increased and refined by the violences used against her, since she hath been so often restored, and never wanted instruments for the rearing and protecting her, who can doubt whether the highest hath not, and whether the highest will not still establish her, and cover her with his mighty wings?