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contraries. In the fir,il: work of creation, he made all, things
of nothino-; h.e commanded light to fhine out of darkners;
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he formed the body of map, h1s moil: excellent earthJr
creature,' 'of the Dafeil: matter; duil:/;;,nd- clay; of the vileil:
creature he made the moil: honourable" and all to fhew the
glory of his power., ' \ . ,
In the wurk of redemption 'in ·like Illanner;" our Saviour
JESUS, by fufl:aining 1hame, hath acqui/ed to 'u's ,glory; by
'induring the crors, hath obtained the crown; by fJffering
death, hath deil:royed death, and him who had the power
'thereof;' and after the fame manner; of working, he is yet
daily m.arvelous in his faints: by death'he brings them unto
life; he kills and makes alive: through doubtings he leads
them to affurance; by temporal defpair he brino-s them to
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abound.in hope; he frights them with his terrors to make
them the more capable of his Gonfolations. , It is il:range and
marvtlous in our eyes! May we not learn it daily by ex-
,perien~e, that GOD delivereth US from fatan, by letting ratby
gathering all Ollr fins againil: us, and laying them to. th;
charge of our confciences; and by a prefent feeling of his
wrath, he maketh us flee that terrible wrath, which is to
come.
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Be not therefore difcouraged, ye wh~ find this.working
of the LORD; faint not, though the LORD after this manner
do exercife you, that when ye cry for mercj\" yet to your
feeling, ye apprehend 'noth~ng but anger; reverence \ the
workiHg of-GoD: 'fuppofe for the pre{ent ye underil:and it
nof; let the LORD walk _ori his own way, and wait tho,u
with patience for ~omfort in the end: " The LORD will fend
" a gracious rain upon his inheritance to refrelh it, when it
,', is weary: though he kill ~s, he fhall make lIS' live again."
When he hath humbled us to the grave, yet he .will raire 'us
again: "After two days he will revive us, and in the third'
" he (hall raire us up, and we fhall live in his fight." It is~
po rotten foundation we lean to; ': the foundation of th~.
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