he would not borrow from the earth, and sowing, reaping, and ploughing, bread, for his peoples food, he would give them the bread of Angels from ⟨p. 440⟩heaven immediately: he would have no Engines at the taking of Jericho, the blowing of Rams horns was a sign, not a cause, God immediately cast down the walls; he would not have a sword drawn, nor a drop of blood shed in the peoples return from Babylon, but the Lord putteth an immediate impulsion upon the Spirit of Cyrus, 1as if he had been in a dead sleep, and he being awaked by God only, sendeth the people away, and the Temple must be builded again: But how? Neither by King, nor Parliament, nor Armies, for Zach. 4.6. Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord: When Babylon is to be destroyed (as the work is even now on the wheels in Britain) Rev. 18.21. A mighty Angel took up the great millstone, and threw it in the sea; though it be a Vision by comparison, yet it holdeth forth an immediate work of God in the ruin of Babylon; and Angels pour their vials on the Sea, 2on the Sun, on the River Euphrates, to make for the destruction of Babylon, and in delivering of Lot Angels did work: God himself spake to Noah for making an Ark; although Angels be creatures, yet the Lords action by them is more immediate, then when he worketh by natural causes; when the Judges scourge and imprison the Apostles, no man will speak for them, the immediate power of God doth it, the chains fall off legs and arms, immediate providence is a key also to open the prison doors, and they are ⟨p. 441⟩saved: There is a bloody war at the taking of the Ark, and thirty thousand footmen of Israel killed, 1 Sam. 4.10, 11. But there is not a sword drawn when its rescued: The Ark cometh home, its alone Gods immediate providence driveth and acteth upon two milk kine to bring it home again, 1 Sam. 6.12, 13, 14. Who knoweth but when our strength of two Kingdoms hath failed us, the Lord shall make Kine to bring home his Kingdom and Reformation to our doors? were it possible that creatures could work salvation for us, and freedom from the sword, and sure peace in Scotland, England and Ireland, without God, or any subordination to him, let it be a deliverance from the creature only, it should be no deliverance, but a curse; that which maketh salvation to be salvation, is, that God hath a finger of power, and an influence of Free-grace in it:
he would not borrow from the earth, and sowing, reaping, and plowing, bread, for his peoples food, he would give them the bread of Angels from ⟨p. 440⟩heaven immediately: he would have no Engines at the taking of Jericho, the blowing of Rams horns was a signe, not a cause, God immediately cast down the walls; he would not have a sword drawn, nor a drop of blood shed in the peoples return from Babylon, but the Lord putteth an immediate impulsion upon the Spirit of Cyrus, 1as if he had been in a dead sleep, and he being awaked by God only, sendeth the people away, and the Temple must be builded again: But how? Neither by King, nor Parliament, nor Armies, for Zach. 4.6. Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord: When Babylon is to be destroyed (as the work is even now on the wheels in Britain) Rev. 18.21. A mighty Angel took up the great milstone, and threw it in the sea; though it be a Vision by comparison, yet it holdeth forth an immediate work of God in the ruine of Babylon; and Angels powre their vials on the Sea, 2on the Sun, on the River Euphrates, to make for the destruction of Babylon, and in delivering of Lot Angels did work: God himself spake to Noah for making an Ark; although Angels be creatures, yet the Lords action by them is more immediate, then when he worketh by naturall causes; when the Judges scourge and imprison the Apostles, no man will speak for them, the immediate power of God doth it, the chains fall off legs and armes, immediate providence is a key also to open the prison doors, and they are ⟨p. 441⟩saved: There is a bloody war at the taking of the Ark, and thirty thousand footmen of Israel killed, 1 Sam. 4.10, 11. But there is not a sword drawen when its rescued: The Ark cometh home, its alone Gods immediate providence driveth and acteth upon two milk kine to bring it home again, 1 Sam. 6.12, 13, 14. Who knoweth but when our strength of two Kingdoms hath failed us, the Lord shall make Kine to bring home his Kingdom and Reformation to our doors? were it possible that creatures could work salvation for us, and freedome from the sword, and sure peace in Scotland, England and Ireland, without God, or any subordination to him, let it be a deliverance from the creature only, it should be no deliverance, but a curse; that which maketh salvation to be salvation, is, that God hath a finger of power, and an influence of Free-grace in it:
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- 2God immediate in his most glorious works, and must be so in this great work now on the wheels, in these 3 Kingdoms.
