The saints thankful acclamation at Christs resumption of his great power and the initials…The saints thankfull acclamation at Christs resumption of his great power and the initials…

It relieves some men to think, that though they cannot carry a business at one time, yet they may at another. It is one of the grand principles of Jesuitical policy, Take time and you may do any thing. He that is, and was, and is to come, may take what time he pleases; and upon this ground he hath done, and will do what he pleases. This is it which makes Zion rejoice and all the Elders who dwell in Zion give thanks, Jesus Christ is and was and is to come. He is the true semper Idem, his goodness and love to his Church, his power and strength for his Church, the same for ever. He can never be surprised, His preparations in regard of strength, and his resolutions in regard of love, stand eternally at the same height, and upon the same bent. We may be sure of him at all times; Man may be able to do much to day, and nothing to morrow, Fuimus Troes, we were brave men, Time was; now the case is altered. Man may be willing to do much to day, and nothing to morrow, Time was! Now his mind is altered. Men one day are very zealous, hot and high (as if they were all spirit) in the prosecution of a design, come to morrow, you may find them cold and flat, as if they had no spirit at all. These were, but they are not, and who can tell what they will be, in time to come. But herein lies the strong consolation of the Elders, that the hand of Christ, never shortens, that his mind never changes, that his zeal never cools, he can act over all his works of power and love again and again, a thousand times again, and ⟨p. 23⟩will if his people stand in need of it. If Christ were not always the same, his Church could not be at all the same. Let us therefore under this notion rejoice in and praise the Lord. He was in our former mercies, He is in our present mercies, He is to come, ready yet to give (as emergencies call for them) future mercies. It had bin sad with us this day, if we had a God to praise, of whom we could only say, He was Englands deliverer, Englands protector in 88, in 1605. He was the Lord of our Hosts in former battles. But in this we triumph, that we can say this day, the Lord is, he is our deliverer, our protector, the Lord of our Hosts and the God of our battles. And with what misgiving, if not bleeding hearts should we bless him this day, if we could not (with as much assurance as we say, he is) say also, he is to come;

It releeves some men to thinke, that though they cannot carrie a businesse at one time, yet they may at another. It is one of the grand principles of Jesuiticall policie, Take time and you may doe any thing. He that is, and was, and is to come, may take what time he pleases; and upon this ground he hath done, and will doe what he pleases. This is it which makes Sion rejoyce and all the Elders who dwell in Sion give thanks, Iesus Christ is and was and is to come. He is the true semper Idem, his goodnesse and love to his Church, his power and strength for his Church, the same for ever. He can never be surpriz'd, His preparations in regard of strength, and his resolutions in regard of love, stand eternally at the same height, and upon the same bent. We may be sure of him at all times; Man may be able to doe much to day, and nothing to morrow, Fuimus Troes, we were brave men, Time was; now the case is alter'd. Man may be willing to doe much to day, and nothing to morrow, Time was! Now his mind is alter'd. Men one day are very zealous, hot and high (as if they were all spirit) in the prosecution of a designe, come to morrow, you may find them cold and flat, as if they had no spirit at all. These were, but they are not, and who can tell what they will be, in time to come. But herein lies the strong consolation of the Elders, that the hand of Christ, never shortens, that his mind never changes, that his zeale never cools, he can act over all his works of power and love againe and againe, a thousand times againe, and