486 VERS. 5,6. 11111 TheVtdorieofChrift. NerasmNI, 01.. Clock ffopp any ,wheele and you hinder the whole mo- tion. ifGod promife tobee prevent, tofb3,1 muff pro_ mile to. bee couragious, isfh.1.5.6.9. Secondly, tQ note. unto us the care and militarie wifedome ofChriff our Captain to meete with and to prevent our enemies,and to intercept their blovves againfl us:For wee may obfetve in the Scripture that Satan plieth the right hand of the Church, laboureth to weakenand a (fault where there is moll dangertowards him. Let Satan panda hio right hand, Plal.to9.6. That is , either give him over to the rageof Satan , that hee may bee hurried to execute his will., or let Satan to hinder him in his mifehievous in- tents. Thus Satan flood at the right hand of lofhtta the high Trieft to rejig him, Zech. zit . Noting the ME- ; duous and indefatigable cndeivors ofSatan to refill, appoint, and overthrdIty the workesof the worthies in Gods Church (I would have come untoyou,even IPaul, once andapine , but Satan hinderedus, t Theff.2.18.) And to divert the firength ofmen upon his fervice. And therefore to rebuke him,and to chew to the Church that our firength is from him' , and due unto him hee alfo fiands there to outvie the temptations and impulfions of Satar. There are the two expofitions which are given of there words The Lordat thy right band. Now though of all plates ofScripture there is indeed but one literall fenfe; yet when two are given,which both tend unto the famegenerall Eope , and are futcable not onely to the analogic offaith, but to the meaning mainely aimed at by the Holy Ghoff in the place, and when there is.no apparant evidence in the face ofthe Text , for preferring one before the other: I thinke it is not unfit to embrace both; and Co fomething I fhall touch uponboth fenfes. Shall Pike through, or wound, or make gore blond is, Kings in the day ofhit wrath.] The word is,Hath liricken through King'. It is a Propl-lefie ofthings futurelpoken as of
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