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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Zion's Inheritance is secured, because 'tis a branch of God's planting, Isa. 60.21. Things are preserved by the same means whereby they are first settled. Is it not then for the honour of God to be the Establisher of that by the Power of his might, whereof he hath been the Founder by the strength of his Arm? He made not use of the Riches, Power and Wisdom of the World, to lay the Foundation of Zion; but as the Jews, he wrought as it were with a Trowel in one hand, and a Sword in the other, and erected her Walls against the force and policy of Hell and Earth; and as he founded it without worldly advantages, and against the stream of corrupt Nature, he knows how to preserve it when the wit and strength of the World are contrary to it. It would be too low a conceit of the Wisdom and Power of God, to imagine that he should undertake so great a work, to be baffled in the end he designed to himself: His Wisdom is as much concerned in honour to work wonders for the preservation of Zion, as his Power was employed at first miraculously, to lay the first corner stone of her.
Sion's Inheritance is secured, because 'tis a branch of God's planting, Isa. 60.21. Things are preserv'd by the same means whereby they are first setled. Is it not then for the honour of God to be the Establisher of that by the Power of his might, whereof he hath been the Founder by the strength of his Arm? He made not use of the Riches, Power and Wisdom of the World, to lay the Foundation of Sion; but as the Jews, he wrought as it were with a Trowel in one hand, and a Sword in the other, and erected her Walls against the force and policy of Hell and Earth; and as he founded it without worldly advantages, and against the stream of corrupt Nature, he knows how to preserve it when the wit and strength of the World are contrary to it. It would be too low a conceit of the Wisdom and Power of God, to imagine that he should undertake so great a work, to be baffled in the end he designed to himself: His Wisdom is as much concerned in honour to work wonders for the preservation of Sion, as his Power was imployed at first miraculously, to lay the first corner stone of her.