A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

3. This may awaken some, the more to prize, and improve, the encouragements they may have from such as remain, or shall spring up in their stead, who are gone, and to bless God that the weight of his interest, and of the cause of Religion, doth not hang and depend upon the slender thread of this Mans Life. The God of the Spirits of all Flesh, can raise up instruments as he pleases; and will, to serve his own purposes, though not ours.

3. This may awaken some, the more to prize, and improve, the encouragements they may have from such as remain, or shall spring up in their stead, who are gone, and to bless God that the weight of his interest, and of the cause of Religion, doth not hang and depend upon the slender thred of this Mans Life. The God of the Spirits of all Flesh, can raise up instruments as he pleases; and will, to serve his own purposes, though not ours.

4. He will have it known that tho' he uses instruments, he needs them not. 'Tis a piece of Divine Royalty and Magnificence, that when he hath prepared, & polished, such an utensil, so as to be capable of great service, he can lay it by, without loss.

4. He will have it known that tho' he uses instruments, he needs them not. 'Tis a piece of Divine Royalty and Magnificence, that when he hath prepared, & polish'd, such an utensile, so as to be capable of great service, he can lay it by, without loss.

5. They that are most qualified to be of greatest use in this ⟨p. 126⟩World, are thereby also the more capable of blessedness in the other. 'Tis owing to his most munificent bounty, that he may vouchsafe to reward sincere intentions, as highly as great services. He took David's having it in his Heart to build him an House, as kindly as Solomon's building him one. And as much magnifies himself in testifying his acceptance of such as he discharges from his Service here, at the third hour, as of them whom he engages not in it, till the eleventh.