Eben-ezer a memorial of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition…Eben-ezer a memoriall of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition…

The Lord will certainly make good all his promises, and engagements, ¹to his people, though it cost him the making of his Bow quite naked, the manifestation of his power in the utmost dispensations thereof. Gods workings, are squared to his engagements. This is still the close of all gracious issues of providence, God hath done all according as be promised. Josh. 22. 4. 2 Sam. 7. 21. He brought out his people of old, with a mighty hand, with temptations, signs and wonders, and a stretched out arm, and all, because he would keep the Oath which he had sworn, and the engagement which he had made to their Fathers, Deut. 7. 8. What obstacles soever may lie in the way he hath done it, he will do it. Take one instance, particular places are too many to be insisted on. It was the purpose of his heart, to bring his Elect home to himself, from their forlorn lost condition. This he engageth himself to do, Gen. 3. 15. assuring Adam of a recovery from the misery he was involved in by Satan's prevalency. This surely is no easy work. If the Lord will ⟨p. 42⟩have it done, he must lay out all his Attributes in the demonstration of them to the uttermost. His wisdom and power must bow their shoulders (as it were) in Christ unto it: he was the power of God and the wisdom of God. His engaged Love must be carried along ²through so many secret mysterious marvels, as the Angels themselves desire to look into, and shall for ever adore. Though ³the effecting of it, required that which man could not do, and God could not suffer, yet his wisdom will find out a way, that he shall both do it, and suffer it, who is both God and Man. To make good his engagement to his elect, he spared not his only Son: and in him were hid, and by him laid out, all the treasures ⁴