59a Cltap:t4. !In Expo aatión upon the Boob¿ of Jos. Verf. 5 This is anexcellent groundof courage, but no ground of care - lefl'neffe : Were we perfwaded of this truth, it would eafe us ofmuch inordinate fear, though it fhould not at all abate our orderlycare of this prefent life. Paul was indeaths often but he died not once , till his day came. Paul was in the Lions mouth but the Lion could not eat him, becaufe he was not then meat for death. Laffly, Gad is moll exafl to his own numbers. As he is exaft concernig duties by him commanded to require them, fo he is exat concerning dares by him appointed, that we may enjoy them. Adj Spirit ( faith the Lord) Jhall not always ririve with man , his day es fhall be an hundred and twenty years (Gen. 6. 5.) The floud came not upon the old world an hour be- fore this number of years was run out, and the old world could not paffe that number ofyears an hour, the deluge comes , and all are drowned. The Lord foretold Abraham (as was toucht before) Gen. t 5. 13. Thy feed fhall be aflranger', in a landwhich is 'sot theirs, theyshall ferve them and theyJhall alu them four hun- dred ears (beginning the account at the birth of Ifaac) The fulfilling of which prophetic is reported in the holyRory (Exod. 12. 40.) It came to paffe cat the endof the four hundred and thrty years (beginning the account from the day in which the promife was made to Abraham) the fel f fame day it came topaffe that all thehoafl of the Lordwent out of the Land of Egypt. God did not only not fail them a day, but he did not fail them a piece ofa day¡, for they came out in the night, becaufethe four hundred and thirty years were expired that night, and when the time was out, though it were night, God would not flay till.morn- ing or breakofday : he would rather provide them aTorch, an extraordinary night-light ( then flay forday -light) that fo his word might be fullfilled in its perfect feafon. The Babylonifb captivity continued feventy yearsand no longer. And force give that for the reafon why BelJhgzzer was (lain in the night be- caufe then the years ofthat captivity were expired. The collati- on of times proves it, that Daniels weeks were fulfilled to a day at the death ofChrift. God the great difpofer of time and num- beret of days, bath alai calculated all thetimes of the Churches troubles and deliveranc s, itu,-the book of the. Revelation and there the dáyes of Babylon are determined, and her bounds are let which the (hall not paffe. Wehave a faying, much like our fives,,
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