2. Magnificently. Sometimes in deliverance God puts the frame of nature in confusion, He melts the mountains, cleaves the valleys, as wax before the fire and as waters poured down a steep place, Mic. 1.4. i. e. He wastes the strength and riches of his enemies when he comes to judge. When he appears in the generation of the righteous, he shall appear in such glory, as to make the adversaries in great fear, and strike a terror into them, Psal. 14.5. God will perform it in a prodigious and unusual way. God might have taken off the wheels of the Egyptian Chariots before they had entered the gap of the Sea, and hindered them from approaching so near his beloved people; he might have afflicted their hands with the palsy, and rendered them uncapable to manage their weapons; or might have sent a spirit of emulation among them and made them sheath their swords in one another's bowels. But though this had secured his people, it would not have rendered his operation so illustrious, as the making ⟨p. 50⟩that which was a means of his peoples security, to be his Enemies destruction, and the waters at once Indulgent to the Israelites, and severe to the Egyptians. He magnifies his Judgments and mercies by one and the same stroke, and drowns the Enemies, in the Sea, whereby he delivers the Israelites. So he preserved Daniel in the midst of those Lions which devoured his accusers. The more contrary things are to an eye of reason, the fitter subjects they are for the exaltation of God. As Christ the head, so the Church the body is raised out of the grave by the glory of God the Father, Rom. 6.4. His right hand shall find his enemies, Psal. 21.8. his right hand shall teach him terrible things, Psa. 45.4. Then shall he come with a shout, as one refreshed with wine, recruited with new Spirits, and risen from sleep, Psa. 78.65. He calls upon all creatures to be assistant to Cyrus in the design of his peoples deliverance, Isa. 45.8. He will perfect it by a way of creation. (I have created righteousness to deliverance) with the manifestation of a creative power, & he makes things serve against their natural order appointed by God. Thus, when God shall appear for the final overthrow of spiritual Egypt, he shall come with Voices, Thunders and Lightnings, an earthquake out of the temple, and appear as magnificently in the garb of a Judge, as he did on Sinai in that of a Law-giver, Rev. 16.19.
2. Magnificently. Sometimes in deliverance God puts the frame of nature in confusion, He melts the mountains, cleaves the vallies, as wax before the fire and as waters poured down a steep place, Mic. 1.4. i. e. He wasts the strength and riches of his enemies when he comes to judge. When he appears in the generation of the righteous, he shall appear in such glory, as to make the adversaries in great fear, and strike a terrour into them, Psal. 14.5. God will perform it in a prodigious and unusual way. God might have taken off the wheels of the Aegyptian Chariots before they had entred the gap of the Sea, and hindred them from approaching so near his beloved people; he might have afflicted their hands with the palsy, and rendred them uncapable to manage their weapons; or might have sent a spirit of aemulation among them and made them sheath their swords in one anothers bowels. But though this had secured his people, it would not have rendred his operation so illustrious, as the making ⟨p. 50⟩that which was a means of his peoples security, to be his Enemies destruction, and the waters at once Indulgent to the Israelites, and severe to the Aegyptians. He magnifies his Judgments and mercies by one and the same stroak, and drowns the Enemies, in the Sea, whereby he delivers the Israelites. So he preserved Daniel in the midst of those Lions which devoured his accusers. The more contrary things are to an eye of reason, the fitter subjects they are for the exaltation of God. As Christ the head, so the Church the body is raised out of the grave by the glory of God the Father, Rom. 6.4. His right hand shall find his enemies, Psal. 21.8. his right hand shall teach him terrible things, Psa. 45.4. Then shall he come with a shout, as one refreshed with wine, recruited with new Spirits, and risen from sleep, Psa. 78.65. He calls upon all creatures to be assistant to Cyrus in the design of his peoples deliverance, Isa. 45.8. He will perfect it by a way of creation. (I have created righteousness to deliverance) with the manifestation of a creative power, & he makes things serve against their natural order appointed by God. Thus, when God shall appear for the final overthrow of spiritual Aegypt, he shall come with Voices, Thunders and Lightnings, an earthquake out of the temple, and appear as magnificently in the garb of a Judge, as he did on Sinai in that of a Law-giver,
