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Show what li{Qimtains. Cfm:fo "'""'"'' ....... •DHM worlct:'2. A Faithf,.Jpra111i}f, wbel'( 60d by his Word hath feaured fome good t-llin~s ta•hi6 people, which he f.rotn<;t·crnity p.urRofedl for them. Now God by his P.EOvid.cl'lce brings this pu•pof~ to• pafs, and give.s •a being to this promife ; when-ev-er Chrifi in the way of his Providence com~s to his people, it is the fulfilling of fome prom)fe: The word of the Lord is yea and Amm, Heaven and Ewh fhall,pafs a W'!Y before one title ofi his word !hall pafs away. It is r~ue 6ods promifos are made without limitation of time, which makes us often fail through unbelief; and fay either as thole fcolfer-s,wbere· is tbe promife •fbi& comi11g? or as the Pfalmifi, Dotb pH prorr;i(• fail for evermm? But the promifes of God are true and faithful,they ue Yt~>anci'Amen;and when 1he time cometh. they !hall have t·h~ir· moll certain being, and accompli!hment. Now Ch-riil never comes to hi-s people, but he cometh. to give a. being to fome promife; and no wonder ifiio let, no·hinderance can !land in his way , when h.e comes to make known himfelf as a God ofFaithfulnefs,who cannollie nor repent. 3,; Lafily ,Hit coming H a/waJ!_ to evide11ce 4rden~Love and affeOZ,. on. . There i~ a llr-ange forGe in L_ove,which carrieth it through a. Tilorn-He?g to the peloved O~JeGl:. Love is as llrong as the grave.1-acob's [even ·y-ears hard fervke feemed to him bur as a1[tw days for rhe great> Liove which he bare unto Rachel; all difficulties feem nothing t/3 a par-ty that is fpurred on wilh Love to what he doth~ wifdom in fobe_r-pe~fons rellrains theeviden~e ofirhis Love [~jllellm,es. ~o . rhe>~tfd:om of the Lo_rd J~fus ChNfi doth fomeumescaufe hrmto•bk/e hhf~cfl, and' not, t-o make his low:e fo (en-1 tiqly appear to hi~ people ; :but when 4!'ove hath its fr.6e patfage again, ir ·moveth (~ifrly, and wor-ketl1- firangely, and 'breaks. through all impediments. Enough hath been f~id for the openi? g, and ·con~r-mip~ , of the point, loome now , to the Applicatron. This ill the firfi place fpeaks to the men ofithe.world, not-to be roo confident of the Mountains and HiUJ thrown "Pin the way oft he /Jord J.r(lll Chrifh when that God had dcllroyed 1he world by, water there was a Generation fo fubtil, that• they would build a, 'Iorper ( forfoorh ) where they thought they,• !hould, li.ve out of Qods reacb,(asifhe 'that before had made the wa&lrs ro arifc! fifteen Cubits above the Mountains, could not have made-it 1 sooo had it pleafed him; but he had more ways than one; he confounds their Languagts,_and rheJamous building-thatlhould have pro-tected W.~11t nfi tb ma~ ofchrifls ~bmin~'&t. 207 -ted:ed them, proves a Ifabrl, a Nimrods foi!Y,rhat was alL Geas time was co~e t~ deliver his people out_ of Egyp~, Pharaoh throws up Moun tarns rn Gods way: one whtle the M1dwives mull be fet on work to kilkhe Mares, another,while others mull throw them in-to the River, anon they mufi be worn our with hard labour ; he thinks all fure, Exod. 5· 2. he bids a defiance to the God of Hea-ven: bur alas ! what was this Moun rain before Zrrubbabel? it be-cam• a Plain. You may build a wall that men cannot climb over, but w~s ever any fo fooli!h ro build a wall to ktep _the Birds our of a Clly ? Oh, let not any one think to lay Mountains in the way oftbe Almighty! what is a Mountain to him thu is able to tbrtjh Jhe MoHnt•ins and to make them as dufi before him 1 But leaving thefe buildm of Babel, l !ha11 turn ro the people of God whom this 'point more prop=rly concerns. Secondly, Be glad then, 0 you righteous, and leaP. for joy you 2. Vfe. ttprzgbt zn heart: No Mountain !hall fiand betwixt yout God and you, no Hill !hall hinder his coming to you. I obferve that God d_oth ordinarily when he would comfort his people unde{ mife- --z_ rres make ufe of his Omnipoteocy, . to dolt with minding rhem ·of that, Efay 42.13. 'Ibe Lord jhoO go forth i1f a mighty man, &c. ver. I 5· I will ma~e wa/1-emormt•int andbiUs. A Believer can hard· ly look out tolvard the fulfilling of any Promife, bur there is fome beam or other in his way: Either-he (ceth a Mountain of Creature· impediments and difficulties that will hinder and thefe make him ~ry our with Eli{hah's Servant. Alas! Maft;,.,.,bat jhaUwe do I ~r wah the Nobleman in the Kings, if God would make wind•ws "' heav:"• yet_how fhou/d thefe things be! Or elfe, he feerh the mauntam of hts own and others fins which he thinks mufi needs hinder the Promife. Bur oh, what comfort i> here that neither of rhe_fe r~o !hall do it; .not the firfi, bccaufe rhe fulfilling of the Promtfe 1~ the work of the Almighties band: not the latter, be- . cau(e God," L've, who when he hath challifed will pardon, when . he hath torn wzU heal,. when ht hath finitten will bind up. After two ddys ( Hof. 6. 2. fa11h the Church,) wi11 he revive Ul : in tbt th~rd day he_ will raife us up, and We jhaU live in his figbt···· his gomg forth 14_Prepartd M the morning. The Syrians b!afphemed, when r~ey fard, that the God of the lfraelites was the God of the ~~untams & nor of the VaUeys; he hath low thoughts of God, that tnrnks a creature_c~n hedf?,e !'imottt !rom the execution of his pur· pofes, or rhe fulfilhng of hrs promtfes. Sennafherib thought he had |