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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.
This was the Exemplar of all the deliverances the Church was to have. As the Assyrian should lift up a staff against Jerusalem, after the manner of Egypt, so the Lord should lift his rod up for them upon the Sea after the manner of Egypt, when the Yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing, Isa. 10.26, 27. when the power of the Enemies shall be destroyed by the strength of Christ. The Lord himself makes it his pattern in those victories he is to gain for his people; when he calls upon his arm to awake as in the ancient days, when he cut Rahab, and wounded the Dragon, and made the depths of the Sea a way for the ransomed to pass over, Isa. 51.9, 10, 11. then the redeemed of the Lord shall come with singing unto Zion, the Song of Moses, while they stand upon a Sea of Glass, a brittle, frail, and stormy world, Rev. 15.3. And our Redeemer makes this his pattern & rule, when he comes to tread the Wine-press in wrath, and make them drunk with his fury, that then he would remember the days of old, Moses and his people, when he divided the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name, Isa. 63.1.2.11. that his power may be as glorious in the latter, as it was in the former, and all deliverances of the Church from the beginning to the end be knit together to be an everlasting matter of praise to his name.
This was the Exemplar of all the deliverances the Church was to have. As the Assyrian should lift up a staff against Jerusalem, after the manner of Aegypt, so the Lord should lift his rod up for them upon the Sea after the manner of Aegypt, when the Yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing, Isa. 10.26, 27. when the power of the Enemies shall be destroyed by the strength of Christ. The Lord himself makes it his pattern in those victories he is to gain for his people; when he calls upon his arm to awake as in the ancient days, when he cut Rahab, and wounded the Dragon, and made the depths of the Sea a way for the ransom'd to pass over, Isa. 51.9, 10, 11