SER~ ~G , 7tiumph of FaitbJ 2~9 . , vidence ; yet it grew till it came up to Armies of Men, th'e fhaking of three Kingdoms, the Sound of the Trumpet, A:he voice ot the Alarm, the lift· ing np of t~e Lord's Standard, peftruClion upon , Deftruction, Garments row led m Blood, and go.. eth on in ftrength, that the Vengeance of the Lord, and the Vengeance of his Temple, may purfue the Land of Graven Image$, and awake the Kings of the Earth ro rife in Battle againft the great JVhore of Jiabylon, that the Jews may return to their Me(jiah, and Ifraet and Judah ask the Tray to Zion, with their Faces thither.. ~'ard, weeping as they go: That the Forces of the Gentiles and the Kmgdoms of rhe Worldt may become the Kingdom~ of GoiJ, and of hts 'Son :Jefus Chrifl. And this AA: of a defpifed Woman, was one of the firft fteps of Omnipoten- ' CY ; God then began to open the Mouth of the: Vial of his Wrath, to let out a little drop of Vengeance upon the Seat of the Beaft, and ever fince ' the right Arm of the Lord awakening, hath b~en in AClion, and iH a growing Battle'againft all that ~.vorjhipped the :Beafl, and received his .Afark on tbeir right Hand, and their Forebead ; 'and who knoweth but Chrifl is in an At! of con~ quering, to create ~new 7"bing on the Earth, and fubdue the People to himfelf. Omnipotrncy can derive a Sea, a World of noble and glorious \Vorks from as fmall a Fountain as a Straw, a Ram-Horn; yea, Jaw-Bone o( a dead Afs. God can put forth Omnipotfncy in all its Flowers and golden Eranche,s_ qf over-powering and incomparab~e _Excellencies, upon mere Nothing, the Wmd Is an empty t1nfolid Thing, the Sea a fluid and fofr and ebbmg Creature; yet the Wind is R 2. God's ,,
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