An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

The word which we translate strength (referred to man) imports that natural power and lively vigour which in man is the principle of strength, which nurses and feeds man with continual supplies of activity. The Lord is mighty in this strength, he hath an infinite, an everlasting spring of strength in him, he spends no ⟨p. 158⟩strength at all, how much soever he uses. His lamp consumes not with burning. His strength is ever vigorous, he knows no decays or faintings, Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary? (Isa. 40.28.) As if he had said, where hast thou been bred, that thou seemest to be a stranger to this truth? Man cannot do much, and he faints in doing a little. God who can do all things, never faints, how much soever he doth.

The word which we translate strength (referred to man) imports that naturall power and lively vigour which in man is the principle of strength, which nurses and feeds man with continuall supplies of activity. The Lord is mighty in this strength, he hath an infinite, an everlasting spring of strength in him, he spends no ⟨p. 158⟩strength at all, how much soever he uses. His lamp consumes not with burning. His strength is ever vigorous, he knows no decaies or faintings, Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creatour of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary? (Isa. 40.28.) As if he had said, where hast thou been bred, that thou seemest to be a stranger to this truth? Man cannot doe much, and he faints in doing a little. God who can doe all things, never faints, how much soever he doth.

Strength maybe considered two ways. There is civill strength, and there is natural strength. Civill strength is authority and power to command.