Use 1. Of Comfort. How dear is the Church to God! When God was engaged in the deliverance of his people, he sinks the strength of Egypt, rather than one hair of the Israelites heads should perish; they went safe over, while no man or horse of the Enemies escaped. God gave Egypt for Israels ransom, Isa. 43.3. And the Sea should have drowned the whole Land, rather than the Enemies have hurt his People. So did the contrivers of the Powder-Plot come to destruction, when not one hair of a head was lost, or one splinter of the place they intended was shaved off, by the prepared Gunpowder. God sits in Heaven, and laughs at the little petty Designs of men, Psal. 2.4. God that is infinite to countermine them, infinitely powerful to defeat them, hath them in derision. Christ in glory mocks at the folly of earth-worms. The Decree of God, which settles Christ a King, assures him a Kingdom, and secures his People as it did his Person, Psal. 2.7. God is a Sun and a Shield; Psal. 84.11. a Shield to defend them, and a Sun to extinguish the fire of the Enemies fury, by shining upon it. God values no Nation for the security of his People. The Babylonians, a warlike Nation, shall sink under the Army of Cyrus, for the Restoration of the captive Jews, Isa. 43.4. I will give men for thee, and people for thy life. He had given Egypt for their Ransom before, and Ethiopia and Seba, in the time of Asa; and still in after Ages God was of the same mind. God is as gracious to his People, as terrible to his Enemies: He is light to the one, when he is fire to the souls and bodies of the other, Isa. 10.17. Christ still sits the Watchman of Ephraim with God, Hos. 9.8. He inspects his Church, and waits to bring the day of Visitation upon his Enemies. The Covenant is of special force with God to move him to deliver his People, Isa. 63.8. He said, Surely they are my People, so he was their Saviour. It seems to refer to the deliverance from Egypt. Shall I have so little regard to the League I have entered into with their Fathers, as to be unconcerned in their misery? ⟨p. 52⟩There is hope in Israel, till God forgets his Covenant, and Christ strip himself of the name of a Saviour. Christ hath his Priestly habit in Heaven for his People, but Eyes as flames of fire, quick and piercing, to consume the very hearts of his Enemies; and Feet like fine Brass, to trample upon them, Rev. 1.13, 14, 15.
Ʋse 1. Of Comfort. How dear is the Church to God! When God was engaged in the deliverance of his people, he sinks the strength of Aegypt, rather than one hair of the Israelites heads should perish; they went safe over, while no man or horse of the Enemies escap't. God gave Aegypt for Israels ransom, Isa. 43.3. And the Sea should have drowned the whole Land, rather than the Enemies have hurt his People. So did the contrivers of the Powder-Plot come to destruction, when not one hair of a head was lost, or one splinter of the place they intended was shav'd off, by the prepared Gunpowder. God sits in Heaven, and laughs at the little petty Designs of men, Psal. 2.4. God that is infinite to countermine them, infinitely powerful to defeat them, hath them in derision. Christ in glory mocks at the folly of earth-worms. The Decree of God, which settles Christ a King, assures him a Kingdom, and secures his People as it did his Person, Psal. 2.7. God is a Sun and a Shield; Psal. 84.11. a Shield to defend them, and a Sun to extinguish the fire of the Enemies fury, by shining upon it. God values no Nation for the security of his People. The Babylonians, a warlike Nation, shall sink under the Army of Cyrus, for the Restauration of the captive Jews, Isa. 43.4. I will give men for thee, and people for thy life. He had given Aegypt for their Ransom before, and Aethiopia and Seba, in the time of Asa; and still in after Ages God was of the same mind. God is as gracious to his People, as terrible to his Enemies: He is light to the one, when he is fire to the souls and bodies of the other, Isa. 10.17. Christ still sits the Watchman of Ephraim with God, Hos. 9.8. He inspects his Church, and waits to bring the day of Visitation upon his Enemies. The Covenant is of special force with God to move him to deliver his People, Isa. 63.8. He said, Surely they are my People, so he was their Saviour. It seems to refer to the deliverance from Aegypt. Shall I have so little regard to the League I have entred into with their Fathers, as to be unconcern'd in their misery? ⟨p. 52⟩There is hope in Israel, till God forgets his Covenant, and Christ strip himself of the name of a Saviour. Christ hath his Priestly habit in Heaven for his People, but Eyes as flames of fire, quick and piercing, to consume the very hearts of his Enemies; and Feet like fine Brass, to trample upon them,
