4mightieWind,andFire. The horfesof gypt arefiefh,¬ Spirit, faith the Lord, not by rnOt , orb) power, butby mySpirit noting that that which might and created power could not doe, the Spirit ofthe Lord was able to effe6I. And this flrength ofwater ferves to carry it as high as itsowne fpringand level': fo theSpirit will never ceafe to ra.ife the heartsof his people, till it carries them up to their fountaine and fpring-head in heaven. Secondly, The Spirit is compared to the rulhiug of mighty wink. The learned obferve that before Chrifs time God fpake unto men in a Colt fill voyce , which they calledRath Koll ; but after in the time oftheGo- fpell by a mighty wind : noting thereby both the Abundance of his Spirit which he would powre out in the latter dayes;and the flrength thereof, a,s,ofa ruffling winde. Though a man have walls ofbraffe, and barsof iron upon his confcience, thoughhe fet up fortifications offeibly reafork, and the very gates ofhell to fhut out the Spirit ofgrace, yet nothing is able to withfand the power of this mighty ruffling winde. vilho art thou,0 great mountain ? Before Zerubbabel thou!hiltbecomea plains, mac. Zech.4.7. No mouritaines, no difficulties can prevent the power ofGods Spirit. He hath flrength topull dovvne the frongea oppositions, and to enable the weakef condition unto the fervice which he will have done. Though there be mountaines betweene If- rael and their deliverance, yet the blinde, and the lame, and the woman with childe,and her that travelleth with childe together , will he flrengthen to climbeover the precipices ofthe highef mountaine, ler. 31.8. Thirdly, The Spirit is compared o Fire, noting likewif both the multiplying or diffafive property thereof,turningevery thing into its ownenature: and the mighty firength thereof, vvherbYit either cleanfeth or confumeth any thing that it meets with. If thou art flub- ble it will devoure thee, if Rorie it will breake, ifgold it will VERSE 1.
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