Answ. 1I say with our blessed Saviour, Luke 18. 27. The things which are unpossible with men, are possible with God. What cannot that God do, that can create? God can bring about those things, which in the eye of sense are not feasible. That Iron should swim, that the Rock should be a Spring, is in nature impossible, but God hath brought this to pass. Cannot God untie those knots which do amuse and puzzle us? Zach. 8. 6. If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? ⟨p. 38⟩saith the Lord of hosts. Can difficulties pose the Almighty? Jer. 32 27. Is there any thing too hard for me? Did not he make the dry bones live? Ezek. 37. 7, 8. God can bring light out of darkness*, harmony out of confusion; he can do more than we can think*, else he should not be God. How apt are Gods own people to be discouraged with seeming impossibilities? Moses who was one of the brightest Stars that ever shined in the Churches Orb, yet ready to hesitate, and sink at seeming impossibilities, Numb. 11. •1. The people amongst whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen, and thou hast said, I will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month; shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the Sea be gathered together for them to suffice them? As if Moses had said in plain English, he did not see how such a numerous people could be fed for a month. God gives him a kind of check for his infidelity, vers. 23. Is the Lords hand waxed short? Do I find mouths, and not meat? Cannot I make provision for my household? Is the Lords hand waxed short? That God who brought Isaac out of a dead womb, and the Messiah out of a Virgins womb, what ⟨p. 39⟩cannot he do*? When things act never so irregularly, God can put them in joint again. When his Church is so low, that she seems to be in the Grave, and have a Tombstone laid upon her, he can in an instant cause a glorious resurrection. Therefore let us not be out of heart, but still rest on the arm of Gods power and Sovereignty, remembering there are no desperate Cases with God.
Answ. 1I say with our blessed Saviour, Luke 18. 27. The things which are unpossible with men, are possible with God. What cannot that God do, that can create? God can bring about those things, which in the eye of sence are not feasible. That Iron should swim, that the Rock should be a Spring, is in nature impossible, but God hath brought this to pass. Cannot God untye those knots which do amuse and puzzle us? Zach. 8. 6. If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? ⟨p. 38⟩saith the Lord of hosts. Can difficulties pose the Almighty? Jer. 32 27. Is there any thing too hard for me? Did not he make the dry bones live? Ezek. 37. 7, 8. God can bring light out of darkness*, harmony out of confusion; he can do more than we can think*, else he should not be God. How apt are Gods own people to be discouraged with seeming impossibilities? Moses who was one of the brighest Stars that ever shined in the Churches Orb, yet ready to hesitate, and sink at seeming impossibilities, Numb. 11. •1. The people amongst whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen, and thou hast said, I will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month; shall the flocks and the heards be slain for them to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the Sea be gathered together for them to suffice them? As if Moses had said in plain English, he did not see how such a numerous people could be fed for a month. God gives him a kind of check for his infidelity, vers. 23. Is the Lords hand waxed short? Do I find mouths, and not meat? Cannot I make provision for my houshold? Is the Lords hand waxed short? That God who brought Isaac out of a dead womb, and the Messiah out of a Virgins womb, what ⟨p. 39⟩cannot he do*
- 1Answ.
- *2 Cor. 4 6.
- *Eph. 3. 20.
- *[Greek or Hebrew] Chrysostom.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Chrysostom.
