USE IV.

USE IV.

If Christ is such a Mighty One, then w• to His Enemies. The mightiest of them all are nothing in his Almighty Hards. Devils are greater in Power and Might than Men are, but they cannot stand before the Power of C• The Disciple said, Lord, the […] are Subject to us through thy Name, ⟨p. 47⟩that is, through thy Power. They have sometimes cringed to Christ and begged Mercy of him. When there was a Legion of Devils entered into a miserable Man, the Master or Chief Devil among them, Cried with a loud voice, Jesus thou Son of God most high, I beseech thee torment me not, Luk. 8.28. Christ is sometimes compared to a Lamb in the Scripture, he is so (as some have observed Twenty times in the Book of Revelations,) importing his Patience and Long-Suffering towards his Enemies. But he is also compared to a Lion, denoting his Strength. This Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Who shall stir him up? Woe to the Man or Men, that shall dare to do it. He will soon tear them in pieces. He will tread them in his Anger, and trample them in his Fury. He will crush them under his Feet, as Grapes in the Wine-Press, and make his Garments Red with their Blood. Woe to the greatest of them, when Christ shall take them in hand. He shall strike through Kings in the day of his Wrath, and ⟨p. 48⟩shall w•und be •d over many Countries, Psal. 110.5, 8. And has he not done so? Has not the Pagan World fallen before him, which was thought impossible. When once the Day of his Wrath is come, the mightiest Men on Earth will cry bitterly. Rev. 6 15. The Kings of the Earth, and the great Men, and the chief Captains, said to the Mountains and Rocks fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that […] on the Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand. Wa there not a fulfilment of that Scripture, when Christ overthrew the Pagan Emperors? Lactatius who lived in those days, says particularly concerning the Emperor Maximinus, that he had a Vision, he thought he saw Christ sitting on a Throne, and many about him in White; he fell into despair, and in Anguish cried, O Jesus Christ have Mercy on me O Jesus Christ b Mercy on me, and so Dyed; Profng that if he might live, he would […] more e a Persecutor of Chris. The second Psalm says, Be wise O ye