Divine efficacy without humane power. Opened in a sermon preached at St. Margarets Church…

2. The Authority of it, which is sufficient ⟨p. 18⟩to animate any man unto obedience. A man that hath an ample commission from a supreme power, acteth with courage, as knowing the power he hath to back him. No commission so full of power as that which God gives. This made Moses and Aaron venture on Pharaoh and all his Sorcerers. Amos an herdsman upon the Court of Jeroboam a King. Peter and John illiterate men, to speak boldly, notwithstanding the inhibition of the chief Priest and his Council, Acts 4. 19, 20. Acts 5. 29.

2. The Authority of it, which is sufficient ⟨p. 18⟩to animate any man unto obedience. A man that hath an ample commission from a supream power, acteth with courage, as knowing the power he hath to back him. No commission so full of power as that which God gives. This made Moses and Aaron venture on Pharaoh and all his Sorcerers. Amos an herdsman upon the Court of Ieroboam a King. Peter and Iohn illiterate men, to speak boldly, notwithstanding the inhibition of the chief Priest and his Council, Acts 4. 19, 20. Acts 5. 29.

3. The Efficacy of it. Nothing more operative then the Word of God. It was a Word only which made the world. He said, let there be light, and there was light; By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth, Psalm 33. 6. [Greek or Hebrew], Euseb. calleth it. And it is a word only which upholds the world,