Char. ;7. e/in Expo#tionupon the Bookof p B. Verf: 12. ç11 not carry like the children of Abraham, God can and will rail up childrenUnto Abrahamof the Stonesof the greet ; he will nor want intirmr,cntsto anCwer his Counfels, nor to execute his corm-_ rands. God wi11thake'Heaven and Earth, but he will have his Will done, andhis decrees perfe&ed, yea, he will dilioive and ruine them rather than not have his Word fulfilled. That of Da- l. id ( Plàl. t 36. 2. ) Thou haft magnified thy word adopt all thy Name, is true of the wordof command, as well as of the word of promile. God will magnifie the word of his protnife above all his Name, and he will alfo magnifie the word of his command above all his Name ; that is, his Word is as a glafs, wherein his.Name, that is, his Holinefs, his Porter, his Goodnefs, his Fait hfulnefs, his Mercy, his Juflice, and his Wrath, are tobe feen, and ihall be Peen in the accompiithments of it towards the children of men. Therefore fear and admire this mighty God, who will find means forthe executing of his Word, for the doing of all that he hath fpoken ; TheClotsdr jhall do whatfoever he commandeth them, upon the face ,fthe world in the earth. Fourthly, If the Clouds are turnedabout by his Counfel, if he doth, as it were, hale the Ropes to turn the Clouds which way foever he pleafèth, then, whenfoeveryoufee the Cloudsgathered by the mind, remember God bathfommhat to do, there's fonw'hat tobe done ; thefe Clouds are the Servantsof God, there's force con- nand or word o` G-xd or other to be fulfilled. We do r,or,as we ought,confider the Counfel of God in the motion of the Clouds vier, fome when the Clouds gather, and the flo ms of Wind or Rain, of Thunder and Liebrning, b:eak forth, a e more ready to think of the Counfel of the Devil,than of Cod, they are apt to fay, furely, There's Conjuring abroad : What's that, but the execu:inn of the Dtvils CoNnfel ?' whereas we fhould fay, God doh it by his Counfel. Take heed of negleuing God when you fee the Clouds ;' do nor attribute their motion, or the moll dreadful Storms chat proceed fro.n them, to any thing battle the Counfel of God ; for there is not the leafl vapour can rife rut of the earth, for the making of a Cloud, buthe caufeth it ro afcend ; there, are not any materials gathered toward the confiiuting of a Cloud, but they a-e under Gods hand, he caufeth the vapours to afcend e and there is not theleafl breath of wind can flit to move the Clouds ( Clouds are moved wiia the wind ) but as God hytt appoint ed
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