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

the more certainly will God be pleased and honoured, and the more will the Churches of God abroad be joyed and comforted, with whom it is doubtless our Religious Interest, to procure as firm an union as we can.

the more certainly will God be pleased and honoured, and the more will the Churches of God abroad be joyed and comforted, with whom it is doubtlesse our Religious Interest, to procure as firm an union as we can.

We have seen the encouragement, the means of it, a Word, the Vehicula of that ⟨p. 32⟩word Christ and the Prophet, the subject to be encouraged, Zerubbabel, the Magistrate, who is to build the Church by the help of the Word and Prophet. There only remaineth the matter of the comfort, set forth, 1. Negatively, Not by Might, nor by Power. 2. Positively, But by my Spirit, saith the Lord.

We have seen the encouragement, the means of it, a Word, the Vehicula of that ⟨p. 32⟩word Christ and the Prophet, the subject to be incouraged, Zerubbabel, the Magistrate, who is to build the Church by the help of the Word and Prophet. There onely remaineth the matter of the comfort, set forth, 1. Negatively, Not by Might, nor by Power. 2. Positively, But by my Spirit, saith the Lord.

Might and Power is here denied, not generally and in Thesi, as if God did prohibit humane power from looking after the interest of the Church, for the Magistrate is the Churches Guardian. The same Lord did by the victories and spoils of David make provisions for Solomons Temple, who would use no such helps for the glory of Zerubbabels. But it is excluded Hypothetically in this particular case and condition. Though they had potent enemies, though they were destitute of Might and Power in themselves, yet God will not have them desert their station, or despond of success, Because 1. He can blast every Sword that is formed against them,