-538 enla.FEer Greenhorns ` ,eaaings true,and theyreturned tothe promifedland. When theIewes were tranllated to tabylon, fothat all hopeof returns was taken away, yet Daniel and other.knew the word as in heaucn,that after yo. yeeses they fhould retorne. This is true in particular perfons,as ¡ab, Dauid,Ezechias,and others beingbrought very low.;yet throughhope ofGods word which is in heauen,rhey looked for delmerance,though they law no hclpe inearth: Thisis good for vs to lay vp again(:trouble to come: and this :comforted Iiradford,Rogers,&c: which faid,God would bringhis word from heauen ro this land againe And becaufe wee cannot feeheauen (though weernult beleeue it by faith,whichisof Hab.tn, things not feene)thereforehe (hewed) that it may be feene inearth,Thr trurkindisrothfrono generation togeneration , &c.Though all things vnder the Sun bechangeable,yet Godstruth is one for euer. Heaven and earthlha /l paffe,Matt6:24. and.Ltik.z t.This generationjhall not paffe e wherevnder lerulaiemhe fetteth out the¡fate oftheworld till the fait day.kor as the Iewes did not receiue the true Chrift, fo they weredeceiuedw itha falle : and when they would not looketo cure their foules, the LordCent famine, narre, and pef}tlence to con- fiunc their bodies: and as they would finde no place in their Joules for his-word;fo the Lord would leave them no place in that good land. And thus Ihall his word continue throughout all generations. Forwherefocuer the Lordhash a number of his,thither flee will fend his word to worke in them faith and repentance, and to to ftrengthen them that r they !hallneuer fall. And as for the reft,the Lordwill trie themwith his word ; and when they frail be found not to receiue thetruth in loue,they thanbe given vp to belecue lies; afterward loue (hall waxecold,andthen iniquíriefrail prerarle: fo that the Lord lu all be constrained to fend famineand pelldence, withwhich they (hall beexerciled till their li- nall deltruéiion.Thus didthe Lord Bealewith them at lerulalem, and thus Ihall tieLord doe from generation to generation. For hisword after this fort Riall goe from one nation toanother people,till theGolpell of the kingdome'lath beene preached through all the world,and then fhali the end.come. Then we lee that the conteirpt of theword bringeth dellruítion to cities and nations. Verfso. Thy truth isfromgeneration tageneration: zhoahaglaid thef000ndationofthe earth, end it abideth. et i, s t i u MrrIthinke,ffandeth in themiddel} of the irmamcnt; and as the Scriptures teachvs, the waters are above the earth :to that to reafon the earth feeirteth to be very fickle and readie to fall, albeit to'ourlinIe nothingfeemeth fo Iiedfaft. How cornmeal it to palle then that the earth falleth not,or is not coucred with water,but becau(eofthe word, tvhereinGod hath commaundedit lb to be, as in the beginninghee made it by theword ? TheLordgavebounds to theSea the which itfhould not paffe, and thofe bounds it kept two thoufandyeeres ;tbcn by the word ofthe Lord it ouerllowed the earth:but afterthat, it bath to this day continued within his bankes, becaufe God bath to appointed it. And ifthere belt) fore by-the word ofthe Lord, the word mutt needs be fore and Itedfalt,whereinGod bathpromifed that iewill haue hisChurchto the end. The like reafon leremie vIeth,cliap.3r.and 33.So long asthe Sun andtheMoone continuein brawn, fo long trill[bans my Churchupon the thewickedragedgainff it.This mutt flayand comfort vs, when thefe thoughts a(ault vs: Qb, dale word fhould be taken from this place,where then fhould it reit? IfthisKing,or Qeene fhould dye,w here fhould theword become then? This muff aflirre vs,I lay,that the Lord will prourde for Isis Church fo, that the wordmay continue amonglb diem, fo long as Iris concoaur of the night and the day abideth. Verf.g r. They continue eusn tothisday by thineordinances:forallare thyferuants. rirHefe aredeputed ofGod tobe his feruants: and thisa nfwereth anobieélion.Ob.Thefe 1 thingsare changeable. Anf.This, in that they arefo, it is toferue Gods judgements, for thelaluacion ofthego od,andthe onfuficnof his enemies. The
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