An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Hence Note, Deliverance is the work of God.

As •he poor cannot deliver themselves in affliction, so neither can the rich deliver the poor by his riches, nor the strong by his power, nor the wise man by his wisdom, craft or policy. The Lord often useth the help of man, creature help, in delivering the poor out of afflictions; yet the whole effect is here, and every where in Scripture attributed to God, He delivereth the poor. Deliverance of any so•t is of God, yet more especially some sort of deliverances are; as Nebuchadnezzar confessed (Dan. 3.29.) who, wh•n those three Worthies were delivered out of the fiery furnace, ma•e a decree, that every People, Nation and Language which spake any thing amiss, against the God of Shadrach, Meshach a•d Abednego, should be cut in pieces, &c. and he did it upon this ground, because (saith he) there is no other God that can deliver after this sort. He had an opinion that his god could deliver, but he appropriated the glory of that deliverance to their God; there is no god can deliver after this sort; no god but the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego can check and stop the rage of fire, and b ing out those unburnt, who are cast into the burning. That's the first thing, Deliverance is of the Lord.

As •he poor cannot deliver themselves in affliction, so neither can the rich deliver the poor by his riches, nor the strong by his power, nor the wise man by his wisdom, craft or pollicy. The Lord often useth the help of man, creature help, in delivering the poor out of affl•ctions; yet the whole effect is here, and every where in Scripture attributed to God, He delivereth the poor. Deliverance of any so•t is of God, yet more especially some sort of deliverances are; as Nebuchadnezzar confessed (