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Show Wh4t MountainJChrifl come/JI{Jpping with Mo[es? how Coon do they faU to1dolatry? how frequent were their murmo<ringslbut God came to them leaping over the Mountains. When the Lord delivered his people out ofBabylm,they were a tr.oll !intul people, Ezr~ 9· 2 , They had notfeparatedtbem[elves frum the fleatlmt. They had taken of their Daughters for themfdves and tor their Sons;fo thatthe wbole[etdwas mint,led witb the people nf tho[e L•ndt;yt• tbe hands of the Princes and mlfTs were ohie{i11 it; yet the Lotd came skipping upon the Mountains to them,&c. And God is the fune GJd t\ill, this h< hJtbdone, and this he will do. 2. A fecondMountain is the Arm offlejh,by which I mean al\obft•cln that the Creature can lay in Gods way; I might indeed have better called it, The Mountain of Creature-hindrances. For the Dev-il as well as the men oftbe world, m1ke up this Motmtain.The Devil IS called the Pri11ce oftbeAir and the God of the nmld;it is his great work to hiuder the ccm>ng of the Lord Jefus Chrifi, both to the Souls,and to theAJJemhlies of bu pPOple.And he doth not work only by his own imnieJiate power, but lets the men of the world on work. It wa< he that imployedHmd to hinder Chrifi in his coming to the wotk of mans Redemption; and in Obedience to his Suggefiion, it was that Heroa tent and killed all theyoun)!; Infams from two Y'"" old and upw.rdt; hoping to have hindered thereby Chrifls moving further to the bufinefs of mans Redemption. Gods great works in com\ng to deliver his Spoufe have met with great difficulties : Pharaoh was a Mountain in Egypt, he and all his people were as Mountains and Hills ; the Nations ef the Heathens were all as fo many Mountains in the lfr~elites way to Canaan. The King ofB•bylon was a great Mountain in Gods way, when he was coming to his ancient people the Jews there. But the Lord came leaping over thefe Mountains, he made Pharaoh willing to let the people go, by ten Plagues one after another\ and at lafi caufeth the Sea to [wallow up him, a_nd his people-; he gives the King of B•bylon into the hand~ of Cyrus King of Perfi~ : fee thJt excellent Text PJ"l. 2. 2. Tue Kings of the earth fenhemftlvu and the rulerstak$ Counfeltogetber againftthe Lord and a$a11yt his anointed , &c. How !hall God get over this Mountainl "· 4· H1 tbatfittetb in the Heavnu jhaU J..,gh, the LordjhaU have tbem in dtrifion, v. 6. yt have I[et my King upon my July btl/ of Zion. Lo, how he cometh skipping upon the Motmtains! To fum up all in !hort, See R•m. 8. 38. Forlamperjwadedthat 11eitber De•th,nor Life,nor Angels,nor ·Principalities ,nor Powers, nor things prefent, nor _ thmgs tbinglto c•me, nor htightb, n., depth, nor any other creatttre j!JaU be able to [eparate me from tbe Love ofGod,which is in Je[us Chri{t. when Chrii'l cometh to the Spoufe, all the Devils in Hell , all the principalities and powers in the world, cannot hinder; no Creature !hall keep him and his Spoufe afundcr, he breaks through all and cometh !~aping upon ~he Mountains. I have now opened the Propofiuon: I !hall buefly !hew you the grounds qf it. Firfl, the Lord c.hrift is clothed wit~ an omnipotent power 1 he. as well as the Fath~r rs the Lard God almrghty. AU power i< cbmmitted t• him in Heaven and earth ; he that denieth this mull deny the divine natureofChrifi, for allowing him to be as the Aponte calls him God IIV~r aU b!tjJed,for _ever, th,e Almighty power of God"m~ft . belong to hrm. ,And tfthts dorh·belong unrp him, then all Lets or f!indrances lignifY, notpirij; t? him; he can if he pleafe come leapcng upon thole thtng?. whtch tn our eyes·!ook like Mountains. But Secondly, That the Lord Jefus Chrifi never comes out to ?is Spoufe, but he com_es in purfua~ce of a fixed eternal purpofe, m performance of a fatthful promtfe ; and Lallly, jn and for the demonflration of a moil ardent Love and Affection : Let me but open thefe three a little. , ' · I fay firfi,Cbrift nevtr coRm~· his Spoufe, bttt he c01m1hin purfut> nce of •n eternal purpnfe. There is nothing that is d,qne in the world, but an eternal thought ordered it,and it comes to·pafs according to theCounfel of an eternal will,and an unchal)ge~h\e purpofe;now obferve, what.ever a man purpofeth,to, do, ,~(h~ altereth not his purpofe, and h~th . fuflicicnt - p_owe~, he moll ~er,tAiniY. doth whatever fi~ndeth to hts w.ayl;>God hathfet down in his qoo!lls-daybook all the alfai~s of,the world, when fuch a .S0ul fhalJ.1wa{k in the dark and fee noh~h.t,and whenLight !hall fhine ·upon it ,in obfcurity; ho\1( many years hi~ people !hq~!d ferve.thei< ~n'~mies aqd be in a firange land,a~d when, what day they !houlcl be delivered; a'l~ when-ever Ch~fi comes to help and lave hrs p€ppl!'·,"h,.; ·comes in purfu~nce of thts purpofe:lt;; rvrittm in the ~•fume ofGods book., that hejiJOuld com.K,an~ lo he cometh.No wonder i( h,e CO!n~th ~kipping upon theMountams,when he cometh,for he CQt11eth cloathed with his fatherll41mi,l!;bt.J(pqwtr,and he cometh to fu!iJI hi~J;ather.s purpole which.mufi,i\.am4. The pqrpofe of thcLQr~tluiil not be altered. Secondly , iChri(l JJ~ver comes to his Spoq fe ; but it is · in the fuijiUrng of a fl'ltbful pro"' if e. There is, r. ~n .mrnfl pt~rpofi; by thts God fJom all etern tty, hath .fet the order . of things in the world |