A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

2. Consider the Certainty of it. When the Word is gone out of God's Mouth, it shall not be recalled. The Lord prizeth his Faithfulness above all things. The Scripture must be fulfilled, whatever Inconveniences come of it. Mark the whole Course of Providence, and you will find that God is very tender of his Word, he valueth it above all his Works: Luke 21.33. Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my Words shall not pass away. God is not so tender of Heaven and Earth, but that he will break it all to pieces, rather than not make good his Word; though it be a curious Frame and Fabric, in which he hath displayed much of his Glory, yet that shall be dissolved. Heaven and Earth do only continue, till all that is prophesied of in the Word be fulfilled. We shall enjoy the Comfort of his Word in Heaven, when all these things are melted away with a fervent Heat. Nay, (which is more) God valueth his Word above the humane Life of Christ his own Son. If God passed his Word for it, his Son, who was the Delight of his Soul, equal to him in Glory, must come from Heaven, take a Body, and suffer a cruel Death. Lo I come: in the Volume of the Book it is written of me, I delight to do thy Will, O God, Psal. 40.7. God had passed his Word to the Church, that it should be so; therefore rather than he would go back from his Word, he sent Christ to die for a sinful World. There was no Promise of more difficulty for God to grant, nor for us to believe, than this of the Incarnation and Death of Christ; yet rather than go back from his Word, Christ must come and die an accursed and shameful Death.

2. Consider the Certainty of it. When the Word is gone out of God's Mouth, it shall not be recalled. The Lord prizeth his Faithfulness above all things. The Scripture must be fulfilled, whatever Inconveniences come of it. Mark the whole Course of Providence, and you will find that God is very tender of his Word, he valueth it above all his Works: Luke 21.33. Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my VVords shall not pass away. God is not so tender of Heaven and Earth, but that he will break it all to pieces, rather than not make good his Word; though it be a curious Frame and Fabrick, in which he hath displayed much of his Glory, yet that shall be dissolved. Heaven and Earth do only continue, till all that is prophesied of in the Word be fulfilled. We shall enjoy the Comfort of his Word in Heaven, when all these things are melted away with a fervent Heat. Nay, (which is more) God valueth his Word above the humane Life of Christ his own Son. If God passed his Word for it, his Son, who was the Delight of his Soul, equal to him in Glory, must come from Heaven, take a Body, and suffer a cruel Death. Lo I come: in the Volume of the Book it is written of me, I delight to do thy Will, O God,