• rcc: _ > .. ~~ Ofthe GuN,~OWDER ..TREAsoN; Smnr;n 9 ;. Covenant)Vt, is not onely with lihmai, but with liher4ti, firft: G 0 "~ firfi bound, to dbefor us,before we doe ought for Him.It is nor,That "'t }bou~ ,and llim, firft;and thenHedeli'!ler ru,after: But, that He {bo11ld firftddiver"' a"d~rfle when we aredelivered, then, and not before, we lhould doeourfervice.I; is~ a/zr, ra~di, lhall be, or may be, h~reafter: it is libe~att, are already. So we are afor~:h~;d w~th Htm~ He~ath done Hts, beforewe begm ours. Lzberati, you fee, precedes{er– vtamll&: ltberatt, the tenfe paft;[er>vwmu, buttheprefent (and I would it we th prefent) I doubt, for a great part it is yet to come. re e , And the reafon, why Hewill have it fo top~oceed; is, He wouldhaveour{ir~ . vtcegrow out of Hts favours, out duty,out ofHts bounty; That is the righr andC deed) the Evangelical!fervim IfHe have us at the advantage, on the hip (a~ wef~n} it is no great matter, then, to get (erviceat our hands. None morefervilethan.Je then. But that, ~s the .E..egall, for feare.And that fo~etimesHe hath,but likes it not; He would have1r, out of love, out ofthe fenfe of His goodne!fe,have our beans bra.: ken, with that., That, is the oiielyacceptablefe~vicewHim, that growes our ofthat root. Thefetvwmu thatgrowes out ofltber~t•; deltveredandferve: firft fkliveml and then{erve. This forthe equity of the Covenant on GoD's pan. ' ,Thel;ror; . Now come I to plead,thatori GoD's panth!s Covenant was performed, that ·manee of G•ds liberate we were. Heaven ~nd ~arrh would nfe a_ga1~fi us, and cond~mneus, if wee Covenmc. ihould not confeffelt~eratt, th1s day. Heaven law lt, and was aftomlhed: And iris. ~hat d~livere/J. goneov~rall the ?arrh, the fame ofit. But that, we doe. The keeping ofthis Day, · themee!lng ofth1s Alfembly, are both to acknowledge and profe!fe, thataMerati b . ,'I"wicedtlive– Ttd. ~f~·7J·!~· there hath beene. , · Nay,not one alone: Two there have beene :and two fuch, asdur eyes havefeent; but ~ureares havenot heard, neither could ~ur j: AtherneUiiJ, ofthelike.Two fuch, as no Ageeverfaw,norcanbefoundinany Stoty :That of LX XXV I I I, This of DCV.(both withinthe compalfe offcventeene yeares.) One by ftrand,rhe other by land(as they lay.) From a Fleet by Sea,from aVault by Jand,deabyju te"'•(as faith ~al-1 ' . .s. thePfalme) as.well,as de abyfiomaris .. a Summer, and aWinterdeliverance : either ofthem, likethis ofZachari's able to b.ring llenediEimfrom a dumbe man. 2 - Fr~miout So, Jelivtredwe were. But,a ddivery is athing at large: though it he, but from enemits. a mifchance,-from fome heavie accident, it is,a delivety. Bur, ifitbeftomour enemieJ, it is fo much the more: As, in that, there is nothing but cafualrie : in thefe, there is rancour and malice, they hate tis: So this the greater danger by farre. &Mom!1 •••· · Arid there ismuch in theenemies : Ofthem, fome reachbut at our fiares, lands mits~ or livelihood: Otherfome, nothing will fatisfie, but our lives. Everyenemie isnot mortall, where he is, the danger is dead!y. Ours were !itch, fought tobring utter defiruClion on us: and not on usalone, but on ours: nor on us and ours onely, but on the whole'Land in general!. ·cs«rece~ Againe, of fuch as be deadly,fome areroaring enemies (the Pfalme fo cals them) ,;.,. fuch as threaten and proclaime rheirenmirie, like thofe in LX XXV I I I. Othm !'f.ti. 7 H · Jurke, like vipers, that fiingro death, without any billing at all; as were ours (this day) which are the more dangerous agreat deale. . More th'nlibt· Thismade it(indecd)to be more than atiberAti (ours.) Liberati, IS properlyfetftee, wi ("hlchis) and freeing is but from Servitude. This was more. Our death wasf~ughr,and we fir fiee. deliveredfrom death, and that a fearefull death, unprepared,fuddenly, mamoment, Yec liberati to be ihattered to peeces. .And yet it was liberati too, in the proper fenfe: for ~pon coo. the matter, it was from both. The Prophets divilion would have taken place mu; Ier.H .u. f<!!j admortem, admortem; q"i ad fervitlltem, ad((rvitutem. They,that had beene blowen up~to·death; they, that had beene Jefr,to Servimde (to aState more mlfer~- ~fihcr H • bfe;than death it felfe.) So, in one liberati, we had two. Both from t~a~ off/4111A~ 5 lots, which were, to death (one that was ,,!l in Hebrew, this was rrup mGreeke ·) And from that of Babylo», belides, which was thraldomc and confulion. Thus were ~cdeliveredfrom UHr e'nem!es.. But
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