Arrowsmith - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .A776 1659

!jZ Aph. 2 m Pcalm 73.24. Prov.z.i7 Va. 9.6. Nehem.9.a9. 11 Chain ofPrinciples. Thou _halt guide me with thy countl and afterïard receive me to glory. The husbands duty in relation to his wife is to be the guide of her youth. Such hath Chriít ( one of whofe names is Counfellour) been to his Church in for- mer times, is at this day, andwill con- tinue to the end of the world. In Exoduswe meet with thehiftoryofthe Jewifh Church, her youth, and her ftrange manner of guidance ; which when the Levites inZehemiah came to commemorate they do it thus, Thou in thy manifold mercies forfookefi them not in thewildernefs;thepillar ofthe cloud departed notfrom them by day to lead them in the way, neither the pillar offire by night to [hew them light, and the way therein they fhouldg'o. It was not onelya feafonable aa. of mercy to them in that age ; but maybe looked upon as an emblem of that fafe condu&, which the Church in all ages may expet from Jefus Chrifr. Foras in that cloudy-fierypil- lar there were two different fubllances the

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