Secondly, Another now, when God will arise is, §2When the enemy doth arise in his pride, and begins in his own conceit to be more then man: When Pharaoh asked, Who is the Lord, that I should let Israel go, then God arose and made him know to his cost, who he was. Pharaoh knew no God but himself; but saith God, I will make him know another God above him, before he and I have done. For this very purpose, God is said to be terrible to the Kings of the earth, and cuts off the spirits of Princes. The Kings of the earth and Princes of the world, if God let them go on and prosper in their desperate designs for a ⟨p. 22⟩time, they will not acknowledge him to be God, but think to carry out with an arm of omnipotence, till God comes upon them, 1in a terrible manner, and cuts off their spirits, and lays them for dead at his feet; that they may know that the most high God ruleth in the Kingdom of men. The Church was glad of such an opportunity to awaken God up to her aid *Arise O Lord, that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men, as if he should have said, Lord, these proud Heathenish Tyrants think they are so many gods; they know no God, but their own strength, and their own wisdom, &c, But Lord do thou arise, and make them know that they are but dying men, and that thou only art the living God. And so elsewhere, God in this case (sensible of this affront) how emphatically and angerly he speaks to that proud Prince of Tyre; 3When his heart began to swell above the thoughts of a man, thus saith the Lord God, because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God, behold therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee, and they shall draw the sword against thee, 4thy beauty and thy wisdom shall depart, &c. And in vers. 9. God jeers the Tyrant thus, wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, 5I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God in the hand of him that slayeth thee; When the sword of the Executioners of my vengeance is in thy bowels, wilt thou say I am God? I will make thee change thy voice before I have done; I will make thee know I am God, and thou but man, when thou shalt die a base and ignominious, death, the death of the uncircumcised.
Secondly, Another now, when God will arise is, §2When the enemy doth arise in his pride, and begins in his own conceit to bee more then man: When Pharaoh asked, Who is the Lord, that I should let Israel go, then God arose and made him know to his cost, who he was. Pharaoh knew no God but himself; but saith God, I will make him know another God above him, before he and I have done. For this very purpose, God is said to bee terrible to the Kings of the earth, and cuts off the spirits of Princes. The Kings of the earth and Princes of the world, if God let them go on and prosper in their desperate designes for a ⟨p. 22⟩time, they will not acknowledge him to be God, but think to carry out with an arme of omnipotence, till God comes upon them, 1in a terrible manner, and cuts off their spirits, and layes them for dead at his feet; that they may know that the most high God ruleth in the Kingdom of men. The Church was glad of such an opportunity to awaken God up to her aid *Arise O Lord, that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men, as if he should have said, Lord, these proud Heathenish Tyrants think they are so many gods; they know no God, but their own strength, and their own wisdome, &c, But Lord do thou arise, and make them know that they are but dying men, and that thou onely art the living God. And so elsewere, God in this case (sensible of this affront) how emphatically and angerly he speakes to that proud Prince of Tyrus; 3When his heart began to swell above the thoughts of a man, thus saith the Lord God, because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God, behold therefore, I will bring strangers upon thee, and they shall draw the sword against thee, 4thy beauty and thy wisdome shall depart, &c. And in vers. 9. God jeers the Tyrant thus, wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, 5I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God in the hand of him that slayeth thee; When the sword of the Executioners of my vengeance is in thy bowels, wilt thou say I am God? I will make thee change thy voice before I have done; I will make thee know I am God, and thou but man, when thou shalt die a base and ignominious, death, the death of the uncircumcised.
- 1Dan. 4.31.
- *Psal. 9. ult.Psal. 9. vlt.
- 3Eze. 28.6.9.
- 4v. 9.
- 5v. 10.
