Sermon 9· Ofthe GuN,i> own E R,T as AsbN• Burfrom the ha11ds ofsur ~nemies! is'morc, thanfomoilr enemies. For let the ma3 liceofanenemiebe what it w1ll, 1flus hands be wcake, or lhott? o: we farre enough Th•h••1•"f filom them. the matteris fo much theleffe. But1fwe come wnhm his reach if he '"''""'""• ·w ' h ' nouut tnt.,ln1 get us within his hands, tb~n ~o o ave mercy on us. • . . . Specially, ifthere bemIus hands, a kmfe thus engraven_, Tocutth<thr.ats of the Ellglijb hmtikes as in LXXXVI I I.d1vers fo engraven, mSpamfh,were brou<>hc from the Fleet ;nd {hewed. Or ifthere be in hishands, amatch,rcady to give fir;to XX X. barrel;of powder (aot fo few.) Ifthehands be fuch: that is_then a delive~y; notfromour enemies only,butfrom thetr hands,or(as we fay)from thm very clutches. -Ye will marke,that thorow all the Pfalmes,everthepart is IHII enforced: Notfrom Pfal.u. i,J: ·\ theLions, but from theLionspawes: from thehornes ofthe Vnicornes, from rP.e teeth ~~~~6, ~f the D~gge: Sohere,fromthe hands, from theblo11~iehands of our enemies. ' Farther I f~y,it is more, tobedeliveredfromthm h4nds, than oret of them. For, 4 if(1ut) then (in) firfi.They mull: firll: be, in the hands,that areddivered out ofthem. F,.m their ) But from them, that may be from comming in them at all. T?e bene: deliveranceof ~£.~;,~0' •i> the twaine. And that was ours : And that was CH • 1sT s : He IS fa1ct, to have luofedtheforrDwes of hell, 'N.2n qt~ib,.. nextM eft, {ed ne nelleretur, faith v!t~gr~fiine. In Aas >.!f; Not, wherewith He was bound; but that He might not be at all bound with them. So we, not by taking us out, but keeping usfrom, {Y1m their hands, from the hands of Pllrenemics. Let me yetll:ay alittle. For (me thinkes)we may findei_n this word,not onely 'litCvtml, 1il~ our deliverance, but everi the verymanner, and themeanesof 1t. Not mltbfratt, the M.m~crol itj ,J,.atine: but, in Saint Lukes owne words; pv!J.'>1«, that will come home to both. E-ms. Pv!J.'v1", that is, properly, eruti. Eruti, that firs us, for themanner, two Wayes. Eruere, is de tenebris in lt~cem edticere. Out uf fome darke deepe hole(as it Fromad.rt/ might be t_hecellar) to bring forthfometh~ngtoligbt (asi: mightbethofe fame~/~:·'; ' 'll~j" mortu, veffels there couched, and dell:med to the blowmg us all up.) It mull: 7 · L beCome darke vault orpit,Vnde, from whente: well therefore faidof us rrttti, that · weredeliveredfrom a pit-danger, adanger under ground,in abyfu terr.e, in the deepe ofthe earth. Secondly,eruere,the compound is, from ruere (the fimple) that is, from a ruine. FromarfliH~ . Not as if we lhould have fallen intO the pit,but thar,there was there bell:owed with- or fall, init, tha; which would have fem us up, that downe wdhould have come, have fal- ~en downe, all to peeces. Ruina it would have beene, and therefore eruti, right. And t~ey talke ofhelping incendium ruinJ: Here, there had beene incmdiumandmina both, and neither helped other, but both beenc pall: all helpc. Deliveredfrom a ruine; But eruere is then in kinde,when we arefodeliveredfrom w;,& the ,u;ni: a ruine,as with their tuine, that fought oms. So it was,we parted not ofeven hands, ofuuteucmics, tve from them, and they from us, neither of both, a fall. No: .we fell not (no fall with us:) theyfell,andbadafoule fall.We were fo delivmdfrom their b,.nds,as they Pc.l.to.8, deliveredinto ours. Weemti: they ruti and c.eji both, fell and wereflaine. The pit Pf>l. 9 .,r, thty dtgged, theyfellmto them[elves: In the [nare they latd, w.u thetr orime{dot taken. The higheft deliveranceofall (fo much made ofin the Pfalmes:) . And thus much was before implied,when it was calledCornuf~llitu,a Borne of{al- ImpHca in"'~ ~4tion. The falvatiol) that fo comes,comesever with the perdition ofrheadverfe par- ~:~;·:~tle.So is theBorneexpounded inDeut.XXXIII. With the{e}halt thou.ftrike thine ene- Dc•<·ll-'71 m~es, andpujh them, 1t1 11ny wildebe4]1. rentilare is the word, Tolfethem up, into the · \vl~d, upon the top oftheir hornes, till they have gored them, and broughr them to thm end. Such was our Horwe offalvation, or (as we turne it) amightie[4lvation. G_o n_ fh~wingHis might no lelfeagainll: them, than for us: vifttedand redeemedus :rmghttly, 10 Hts mercy; vi.fttedand rninedthem as mighril 'y, in His wrath. . And againc,in this,notonly thenwinei', how, but themeanes whereby· hr, He ~f::'::.~~,; of hathrai{edt~p aborne of[Alvdticn.Now to raife t~p,mull:necds be interpreted ofa per- it. . · fon, t~emeanes ·oft?eddivery. Who was that~ InDaniel, andthc·Revtlation,_I ~'~-~-'~!: Jinde 1t totidem verb~t,De~em CornHa,deHm RegesJtmt : Alluding therem, as to rbe1r Rml., 7: ·~:. R r r r :t great
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