throughNaturall impolfibilities. 157 be great in power , that can fay to things that are not , Tee ; andgive a Refurredion unto dead things : fo long as there is ftrength, and ability in the meanes, men do not fo much con- , fider thepower, and the All-fnfficiency ofGod : but when all meanes are ftrengthlefle, and ail meanes are dead , andyet the mercy comes ; Oh l fayes a foule, now I fee that God is a God eAimighty, God All-fufficient. Hereby he is made known under the name of7ehovab ; a Being that gives a Being unto all other Beings ; faithful! in fulfilling hispromife : fo long as there is a being in the fecond caufe, and in the meanes ; God is not known by the name yehovah : but when there is a fentence ofdeath put upon the fecond caufe,andyet the mercy comes : Oh ! now fayes a foul, I fee that God is7ehovah, a Being that gives a Being to all o- ther Beings. Therefore God does it. And then againe fecondly, God does go this waywithhis people, with beleevers, thechildren of Abraham, That they may learne more to trug unto him, to trug Panto God alone : You know what the Apoftle fayes in the firft of Timothy the fifthchapter and fifth verfe, She that h a widdow, and de- folate trufteth in God. We feldome trait in God, till a defo- lationcome upon the meanes : Awiddow that is defolate, trufteth in God ; when defolation comes upon the meanes , thenwe learnefor to trait inGod. One that does learne to fiVimnat, fo le:ng as he can touch the bottome, can touch the earthwith his foote , he does not commit himfelfe unto the ftreame but.when he can feele no bottome, then he commits himfelfe unto themercy of the waters: Now fo long as a man carrftand upon the fecond caufe, he can feele the bottomwith his feete , he does not commit himfelfe to the i'creame of mercy : but when once the fecondcaufe is gone , andhe can- not feele the bottome ' then he commits himfelfe unto the ftreame ofmercy. And youflail fee the Apoftle gives you this account ofit, in the fecondof Corinths , thefirft chapter, and the ninthverfe , Rut we bad thefentence ofdeath in> our felvessthat wefbouldnot troll. inourfelves, but in god, which raifeth the dead. This isanother reafon , why God is pleafed to go this way. Againe, 2. Reaf.
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