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

We have seen how the Lord encourageth his servants in difficulties, and by what means he doth it, by the Word of his own mouth, now this word is brought by the Prophet to Zerubbabel, and by the Angel, (1.) By Christ unto the Prophet; The Angel in the former Chapter spake immediately to Joshua, here mediately by the Prophet ⟨p. 22⟩Zachariah unto Zerubbabel. 1. The first Revealer of the counsel of God unto the Church is the Angel of the Covenant; It was his Spirit which spake in the Prophet, 1 Pet. 1. 11. He by his Spirit preached in the days of Noah, to the spirits which are now in prison,¹ 1 Pet. 3. 19, 20. for so Andradius a learned Pontifician, as well as Beza and other Protestants have expounded that place. No man hath seen the Father but by the revelation of the Son, Joh. 1. 18. Mat. 11. 27. He was the Angel that spake unto Moses, Act. 7. 30. 38. and unto Isaiah, John 12. 40, 41. He instructed his Apostles in things pertaining to the Kingdom of God, Acts 1. 3. They must deliver nothing to the Church, but what they had first received from him, 1 Cor. 11. 23.

We have seen how the Lord encourageth his servants in difficulties, and by what means he doth it, by the Word of his own mouth, now this word is brought by the Prophet to Zerubbabel, and by the Angel, (1.) By Christ unto the Prophet; The Angel in the former Chapter spake immediately to Iosua, here mediately by the Prophet ⟨p. 22⟩