Chap.9. AnExpofitzon upon the BoolZofJ O B. Vcrf.I2. him reftore and vomit up the fweet murk's, whichhe bath fwal- lowed. II ifnot thus with God. uirft, Power cannot do it though the infliuìnents which he ufeth to takeawayfrom us beweak, yet the prong [hall net be a- ble to make the weaker reftore. A weak Nation may deftroy a firongNation, and the ftrongcr /hall not be able to ma ke the weaker reftore, ifthe Lord fend them. When theBabylonians Cu' camped about jeruJzlern, he warnsthem by his Prophet , do not think you fhall deliver yotii felves by your great ftrength, I have rent them to take 'your City and your State, And though they-roereall wounded men, yet thryJhall rife up and take your City(Ia. 43.13.) Iveil( work, (faith the Lord) and who(hall let it ? Who thall let ? Why, they might fay, we `will have fettle that shall let it : No (faiththe Lord) none fhall let it ; Eeho1d,1 haverent to Babylon, and drftroyed all their Princes, thofe that fought to hinder me in my work by their power, and couufel,`are broken,though they feem'd as thong as iron bars(fo the sv'ard is,) Thefe bar's of iron cannot keep me from entring, I will break all . oppofition raifed againft my work. Secondly, As power cannot hinder him, fo policy cannot ; no counfel fhall flophim : They (Ifa. 7. 6.) took counfel and re- folved flrongly,We will go up againft fudab, anddeftroy it, andfet a King in the midit of it,even the fon of Tabeal ;The Lord anfwer- eth in the next words,It/hall notftand,neither fhallit come topaf.h. You refòlve to do it, you make it outin your counfèls, how to hinder mine, but it (hall not be, it shall not corne to pars.' As no counfell againft us /hall ¡land, if the Lord be with us OP. S. 1 o.) So no counfelfor us fhall (¡and, ifthe Lord be a- gainft us. Thirdly,When the Lord is refolved to takeaway the peace and glory of a Nation, or ofa Church, he will doit, andno fpirituáll moans /hall hinder him, prayer it 'felf Talf not hinder him. It any thing in theworld can move the Lord toreltore;` when he takethaway the peace ofa people, it is prayer and the cry ofhis people. Prayer hath often met the Lord, as Abigal did. David (1 Sam. 25.) and prevailed with him to put up 11is fward,which was ready to defiroy. At the voice ofprayer the Lord hath 'reilo- red that which he took away, and bath flayed 'from doing that which he feemed fully refolved to doe, Pfal. ío6.'23. The Lord wouldhave deftroyed them, bad not Mofes his chojen ftood: before him itS
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