368 VERSE 3. I COL1.27,28. I COr.2.3a415. 2Con4.7. Zech.4.6. z Cor.16.9. iWultitudes borne unto Chrill .....4 Unt0OBLIC his Spirit and power is over the whole Church, by them bee walketh in the middefl oftheCandleilicks. Chrills bodily pretence and preaching the Imes with.. flood,and crucined the Lord ofglory. But now toPhew the greame& ofhis power by the Gofpell, hee goes hinfelfe away, and leavesbut a few poore and perfecu- tedmen behinde him,ailified with the venueofhis Spi- rit, and by themwrought workes which all the world could not with (land. Hee could have publifhed the Gofpell as hee did the Law by the minifleryofAngels; hee could have anointed his Apotiles with regall oyle, and made them not Preachersonly but Princes, andDe- fendersofhis faith in the world. But hee rather chofe to have them to the endof the world poore anddefpifed men,whom the world (without any thewofiuui reafon whichcanbee bydiem alleaged) fhould overlooke,and account of as low and maneconditioned men, that his Spirit might in their minifierie bee the more glorified. Godbath chofen the fools$ things ofthe world toconfound the wije , andweak,thingsofthe worldto confound thing, that are ththty , and hale things of the world; andthings whisk are de.rnifedbath Godchofen, yeandthings that are not, to bring to nought things that are; that nofielbAmid glory inho's prefence. But that his ownSpirit might have all the honor; therefore 1 was withyouinweakneffi,,faith in much trembling, A oille,andi d.c.7hat yourPithfboteld not /land in the wifedome of men , but in nfeare,et thepower ofGod. And againc , Weehave this treajure in earthenwffells, that the excellency of the power maybeeof Godandnot ofuepot by might,nor bypower,but bymy Spi.. tit, faith theLord. Thus we finde that when the Church I was mofl perfecutcd it did then ma grow, and in the worft times it brought forth the grcateil fruit, to note the power ofChrifts Kingdonie above all the attempts ofmen. Agreat bore, andercapoll asopenedunto mee, faith the Apoille,and there aremany adverfgries; intima- ting
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