standing Thesis follow it and let your thoughts run whither it will lead you A Theme of the Spirit 's setting is better than one of our own chusing 4. Record the choicer of them We may have occasion to look back upon them another time either as grounds of comfort in some hour of temptation or directions in some sudden emergency but constantly as persuasive engagements to our necessary duty Thus they may lye by us for further use as money in our purse Since Mary kept and ponder'd the short sayings of our Saviour in her heart †Luk. 2.14 51. committing and fitting them as it were in her common-place book why should not we also preserve the whispers of that Spirit who receives from the same mouth and hand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hâ—â—ych what he both speaks and shews to us It is pity the dust and filings of choicer metals which may one time be melted down into a mass should be lost in a heap of drossy thoughts If we do not remember them but like children are taken with their novelty more than their substance and like John Baptist's hearers rejoyce in their light only for a season †Joh. 5.35 it will discourage the Spirit from sending any more and then our hearts will be empty and we know who stands ready to clap in his hellish swarms and legions But howsoever we do God will record our good thoughts as our excusers if we improve them as our accusers if we reject them and as He took notice how often He had appear'd to Solomon †1 Kin. 11.9 so He will take notice how often His Spirit hath appeared to us and write down every motion whereby we have been solicited that they may be witnesses of his endeavours for our good and our own wilfulness 5. Back them with Ejaculations Let our hearts be ready to attend every injection from Heaven with a motion to it since 't is ingratitude to receive a present without returning an acknowledgment to the Benefactor As God turns His thoughts of us into promises so let us turn our thoughts of Him into prayers and since his regards of us are darted in beams upon us let them be reflected back upon Him in thankfulness for the gift and earnestness both for the continuance and encrease of such impressions as David prayed that God would not take his holy Spirit from him †Psa 51.11 which had inspired him with his penitential resolutions To what purpose doth the Holy Ghost descend upon us but to declare to us the things which are freely given us of God 1 Cor. 2.12 And is it fit for us to hear such a declaration without a quick suitable reflection Since the Comforter is to bring to our remembrance †Joh. 14.26 what Christ both spake and did it must be for the same end for which they were both spoken and acted by him which was to bring us to a near converse with God Therefore when the Spirit renews in our minds a Gospel-truth let us turn it into a present plea and be God's remembrancers of His own promises as the Spirit is our remembrancer of Divine Truths We need not doubt some rich fruit of the application at such a season since without question the impressions the Spirit stamps upon us are as much according to God's will †Rom. 8.27 as the intercessions he makes for us Therefore when any holy thought doth advance it self in our Souls the most grateful reception we can bestow upon it will be to suffer our hearts to be immediately fired by it and imitate with a glowing devotion the Royal Prophet in that form he hath drawn up to our hands O Lord God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel our fathers keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy servant and prepare my heart unto thee †1 Chron. 29.18 This will be an encouragement to God to send more such guests into our hearts And by an affectionate entertainment of them we shall gain both a habit of thinking well and a stock too A DISCOURSE OF THE CHURCHES STABILITY Psalm 87.5 And of Sion it shall be said This and that man was born in her and the Highest himself shall establish her THE Author of this Psalm and the time when it was penn'd are uncertain Some think it was compos'd after the return of the Jews from Babylon upon the Erection of the second Temple and designed to be sung in their constant Publick Assemblies Others think it was compos'd by David when he brought the Ark to Sion as the Repository for it till the Building of the Temple wherein it might honourably rest It seems whoever was the Author to be Ecstatical The Penman breaks out into a holy rapture and admiration of the firmness and stability of the Church 'T is also Prophetical of the Christian Church of the glory of it the largeness of its bounds and perpetual duration The Jews ridiculously interpret it of literal Jerusalem in regard of the excellency of its Climate the goodness of the air being seated in the middle or navel of the earth and the seat and spring of all the wise men accounting all fools that were to be found in other parts 't is true others were not wise with a wisdom to Salvation they were not instructed in the high Mysteries of Religion by God as those People were But was there not Learning among the Greeks Wisdom among the Chaldeans and a ripeness in Mechanick Arts among the Tyrians which lived in the same Climate with the Jews It can by no means be understood of the material Jerusalem and Sion that was ruin'd by the Babylonians and tho re-edified yet afterwards subverted by the Romans and the remainders of it at this day become a Stable for Mahomet and the bringing in those Nations mention'd v. 4. overthrows any such interpretation which never were inrol'd in the registers of Sion nor became Votaries to the true Religion while the walls of that place were standing in their glory Sion was the place whence the Law was to come Mich. 4.2 a Law of another nature than that which was uttered with Thunders from Mount Sinai Sion was the place where the Throne of Christ was to be settled where he was to be crowned King Psal 2.6 and where he was to manage the Scepter and rule in the midst of his enemies Psal 110.2 and therefore 't is here celebrated as the figure of the Christian Church of that City which Abraham expected whose builder and maker is God Heb. 11.10 And the Christian Church is particularly called by this name of Mount Sion Heb. 12.21 And Believers are called the Sons of Sion Joel 2.23 The Psalmist speaks 1. Of the great love the Lord bears to Sion v. 2. 2. Of the glory of the Promises made to her v. 3. 3. Of the confluence of new Inhabitants to her v. 4. 4. Of the Duration and Establishment of
of her children And when God shall count the people of forraign nations he shall set a mark upon every true believer and reckon him as one born in Sion a Denizen of Jerusalem though not a Jew in the flesh De Dieu in loc I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me or rather among them that know me or for them that know me * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I will remember them as persons inlightned by me and acquainted with me The Psalmist reckons up here nations that were greatest enemies to the Church Rahab or Aegypt * For so Aegypt is named Isa 51.9 her antient enemy Philistia her perpetual invader Rahab signifies pride or fierceness the fiercest people shall be subdued to Sion by the power of the Gospel Aegypt the wisest and learnedst nation the most Idolatrous and Superstitious men that rest in their own parts and strength shall cast away their Idols Babylon the strongest and most powerful Empire the subjects of which the Scripture often describes as luxurious cruel proud Tyre the greatest mart whose Citizens were the greatest merchants The Aethiopians the posterity of Cursed Cham whose souls are blacker than their bodies men buried in sin benighted with ignorance poysoned with pride the most fierce and envenom'd enemies shall be brought in by an infinite grace and make up one body with her and shall be counted as related to her by a new birth and be made members of her by regeneration this is properly to be born in Sion * This man was born there as without regeneration we have not God for our father so neither have we Sion or the Church for our mother this is the great priviledg we should inquire after without which we are not in Gods register this 2d birth God only approves of he enrolls no man in the number of the Citizens of Sion nor indows them with the special priviledges of it upon the account of their first wherein they lye buried in the corruption of Adam and are Citizens of Hell not of Jerusalem Again this 2d birth is never without the knowledge of God * Among those that know me Ignorance is a bar to this enrolment he is no man that is not a rational creature and he no regenerate man that hath not some knowledg in the great mysteries of God in Christ In v. 5. 1. The honour of Sion is described by her fruitfulness 1. In regard of the eminency of her births she is not wholly barren she hath her births of men and worthy men the carnal world hath not exceeded the Church in men of raised intellectuals Sion hath not been a City of fools Dionysius the Areopagite hath been her production as well as Damaris a woman Kings also have been nurst at her breasts that they might be nursing fathers to her by their power but the honour of Sion consists in the inward change it makes on men dispossessing them of the nature of wolves for that of lambs rendring them the Loyal subjects of God instead of his active enemies 'T is the glory of Sion that this or that man born in her was changed to such principles and such affections that all the education and politeness of the most accomplisht Cities in the world could not furnish them with 2. In regard of the multitude of them this and that man of all sorts and conditions and multitudes of them so that more are the children of the desolate than of the marryed wife The tents were prophesied to be inlarged the curtains of the habitations of Sion to be stretched out and her cords to be lengthened to receive and entertain that multitude of children that should be brought forth by her after the Sacrifice of the Son of God Isa 54.1 2. For that exhortation follows upon the description of the death and exaltation of Christ Isa 53. 2. The happiness of Sion The highest himself shall establish her 1. Security in her glory Establish her 2. The Author of that security and perpetuity The Highest and that exclusive of any other The Highest himself * Coccei in loc all that are not the most high are excluded from having a share in the establishment of the Church 'T is a work peculiar to him 'T is not the excellent learning strength of the wise or mighty men that are born in her that doth preserve her but God alone he spirits and acts them means God doth use in bringing in inward grace means he doth use in setling the outward form But such means that have in reason no strength to effect so great a business means different from those which are used in the establishment of other Kingdoms whereby the hand that acts them is more visible and plain than the means that are used * Folang 'T is not the wit of man which is folly nor the strength of man which is weakness nor the holiness of man which is nothing can claim the honour of this work God himself picks stones out of the quarry smooths them for the building fixeth them in their places he himself is the only architect his wisdom contrives it his grace erects it his power preserves it and accomplisheth his own work 't is the highest none higher to over-power him none so high as to check and mate him Shall establish her This cannot be meant of the literal or local Sion though that indeed was preserved while the legal service was to indure excepting that interruption by the Babylonish captivity but now Mahomets horse tramples upon it and it retains none of the ancient inhabitants but of the true mystical Sion the Gospel state of the Church which shall continue in being as Christ the head of it hath setled it till time shall be no more Other Kingdoms may crumble away the foundations of them be dissolved But that God which laid the foundation of Sion and built her walls will preserve her palaces that the gates of Hell the subtilty of Hereticks the fury of Tyrants the Apostacy of some of her pretended Children all the locusts and spawn of the bottomless-pit shall not be able to root her up Shall establish her The word signifies the affording all things necessary for defence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 increase of victory preparations of it the knitting of it Doct. The Gospel-Church is a perpetual Society establisht by the highest Power in Heaven or Earth It shall continue as long as the World and out-live the Dissolution of Nature she shall bring forth her Man-child maugre all the vigilancy of the Dragon which shall be caught up to God and his Throne and though she be forced to flie into the wilderness yet a place is prepared for her habitation and food for her support during that state no less than 1260 days or years and this by no weaker no meaner a hand than that of God himself * Rev. 12.3 4 5 6. where she hath a place prepared of God that
most lasting of all plants Three times it is compared to Lebanon in the promise Hos 14.5 6 7. The Cedar never rots worms eat it not 'T is not only free from putrifaction it self but the juyce of it preserves other things Numa's Books * Sanct. in loc though of paper yet dipt in the juyce of Cedar remained without corruption in the ground 500 years How shall that God who always remembers every thing yea the meanest of his creatures forget his own variety of expressions and multiplyed promises concerning his Sion 6. In regard 't is the seat of his glory 'T is the branch of his planting the work of his hands that he might be glorified Isa 60.21 His glory would have a brush if Sion should sink to ruin He sows her for himself Hos 2.23 speaking of the Church in the time of the Gospel not to the Devil to sin to the world but to his own glory As husbandmen sow their Fields for their own use to reap from them a fruitful crop and therefore till the Harvest be in they take care to make up the breaches and preserve them from the Incursions of beasts Though God hath an objective glory from all creatures yet he hath an active glory only from the Church 'T is Israel the house of Aaron and those that fear the Lord that the Psalmist calls upon to render God the praise of the eternity of his mercy Psal 118.2 3 4. He forbids the prophane and disobedient world to take his Covenant in their mouth Psal 50.16 None do none can truly honour and acknowledg him but the Church therefore the Apostle in his Doxology appropriates the glory that is to be given to God as the object to the Church as the subject Ephes 3.21 Vnto him be glory in the Church by Jesus Christ throughout all Ages world without end So solemn a wish from so great an Apostle that it should be amounts to a certainty that it will be There cannot be a glory to God in the Church throughout all Ages without the continuance of the Church in all Ages God will have a revenue of glory paid him during the continuance of the world there shall therefore be a standing Church during the duration of the world while he therefore expects a glory from the midst of his People he will be a wall of fire round about them and keep Sion one where or other in a posture to glorifie him What is the Apostles motive to this glory 'T is not a remote power such as can act but will not but a power operative in the Church in doing those things for her which she could never ask nor think for her self * v. 20. Now to him that is able to do exceeding abundan ly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us God hath a greater glory from the Church than he can have from the world he therefore gives her more signal experiments of his Power Wisdom and Love than to the rest of the world He had a glory from Angels but only as Creator not as Redeemer till they were acquainted with his design and were speculators of his actions in gathering a Church in the world The Church therefore was the original of the new glory and praise the Angels presented to God Glory in the Church by Christ Musculus thinks that is added to distinguish it from the Jewish Church which was settled by the Ministry of Moses as much as to say God had not so much glory by the Tabernacles of Jacob as he hath by the Church as settled by Christ Or by Christ notes the manner of the presenting our praise and the ground of the acceptance of our praise God accepts no glory but what is offered to him by the hand of Christ and Christ presents no glory but what is paid him by the Church 'T is the Church then and the Gospel-Church that preserves the glory of God in the world If the Church therefore ceaseth the glory of God in the world ceaseth But since God hath created all for his own glory separated a Church out of the world for his glory appointed his Son the Head of it that he might be glorified his Church therefore is as dear to him as his glory and dear to him in order to his glory in establishing it therefore he establishes his own honour and name It shall therefore remain in this world to glorifie him afterwards in another to glorifie him and be glorified by him 7. In regard that 't is the object of his peculiar affection Establishment of a beloved object is inseparable from a real affection By this he secures the Spiritual Sion or Gospel-Church both from being forsaken by him or made desolate by her Enemies because she was Hephzibah * Isa 62.4 my delight or my will is in her as if he had no will to any thing but what concern'd her and her safety As men ingrave upon their Rings the Image of those friends that are dearest to them and as the Jews in their Captivity engraved the Effigies of their City upon their Rings to keep her in perpetual remembrance so doth God engrave Sion upon the palms of his hands Isa 49.16 to which the Holy Ghost seems to allude He so loves his Israel that he who will be commanded by none stoops to be commanded by them in things concerning his Sons Isa 45.10 Not only ask of me what you want but command me in the things that are to come the pleas of my promises of things to come and your desires to bring them forth as the work of my hand shall be as powerful a motive to me as a command from a Superiour is to an obedient Inferiour for it is to things to come such things that God hath predicted that he limits their asking which he calls also here a commanding of him There was a real love in the first choice there is an intenseness of love in the first attraction Jer. 31.3 I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee His love which had a being from Eternity is exprest by words of more tenderness when he comes to frame her lovingkindness as if his affection seemed to be increased when he came to the execution of his Counsel According to the vigour of his immutable Love will be the strength of her immutable Establishment This promise is made not to the Church in general but to all the Families of the spiritual Israel v. 1. Men are concern'd in honour for that upon which they have plac'd their affection Shall there then be decays in the kindness of that God whose glory it is to be immutable Is it possible this Fountain should be frozen in his breast Was there not a love of good will to Sion to frame her to pick out her materials when they lay like Swine in the confused mass and dirty mire of a corrupt world Is there not also a
to understand the whole Psalm of Christ since the Apostle hath interpreted part of it of him Heb. 2. i. e. Make them utterly silent not knowing what firm Counsels to take or what successful orders to give And it being his end to destroy the works of the Devil the destroying the works must be the root of the being and preservation of the Church Did Christ then rise as a Conquerour out of the grave and sit down as King upon his throne to let the Devil and the world run away with the fruits of his victory Will he be so injurious to himself as to let his Throne be overturned by his enemies And to let the adversary of Sion repossess himself of that which he hath been so powerfully and successfully stript of Christ being King cannot be chased out of his Kingdom nor wants power to keep it from being utterly wasted To be the governour of Sion was as much in his first Commission as to be her Redeemer * Isa 49.10 He was to feâ—d guide his flock which is often in Scripture put for Ruling Christ as King will never leave beating up the quarters of Hell till he hath utterly routed their force and made the partizans of it his footstool and thereby established Sion beyond the fears of any tottering Therefore when he speaks of the Church of Smyrna which was to have a sore conflict with the Devil and feel the smart of him for 10 days understanding those 10 Ancient persecutions of the Church he assumes a new title for her encouragement Revel 2.8 These things saith the first and the last which was dead and is alive I was the first that listed you and embodied you for the war and I will be the last to bring up the rear I was first in raising you and I will be the last in preserving you Fear not the terror of those persecutions though they be to blood and death I was used so I was dead but I am now alive and I live for my Church to behold her battles to procure her victory and to Crown those that shall fall in the fight against her enemies Christ in encouraging them to suffer for him assures them of the security of a Church the Devil should not wast the whole but cast some of them into prison not all and that for their refining v. 10. The Devil shall cast some of you into prison that you may be tryed Christ lives still and acts as King for the security of Sion and preserving a Generation to serve him till the time comes that is promised Rev. 22.3 that there shall be no more curse but the Throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and then his Servants shall serve him with a full security from all trouble 3. The Foundation of Sion is sure 'T is founded upon Christ the corner stone Christ is called the Foundation 1 Cor. 3.11 The Apostles are the Foundation Eph. 2.20 Christ is the Foundation personally the Apostles doctrinally Christ meritoriously the Apostles ministerially the Apostles in regard of the publication of the Doctrine Christ in regard of the efficacy of the Doctrine whereby the Church is established 1. The Church is ingrafted in Christ united to him one with him the parts of it are reckoned as his seed * Psal 22.30 A s ed shall serve him it shall be counted to the Lord as a generation As if they had sprung out of his loins as men naturally did from Adam's that as Adam was the Foundation of their corruption so shall Christ be the Foundation of their Restauration They shall be looked upon as the Children of Christ and Christ as their Father and as Father and Children legally counted one The Church is his own body Eph. 5.29 30. In loving and establishing the Church he loves establisheth himself Whatsoever is implanted in nature as a perfection is eminently in God Now since he hath twisted with our natures a care of our own bodies this care must be much more in the nature of Christ because his Church is as nearly united to him as our members to the flesh and the bones and he hath an higher affection to his mystical than we can have to our natural bodies Christ will no less secure and perfect his own body than a man would improve the beauty and strength of his natural body to preserve it from wounds from being mangled or scarrified unless it be for the security of the whole If he did not do it it would be a hatred of his own flesh which never any man in his right wits was ever guilty of The Eternity of Christ is made the Foundation of the Churches Establishment Psal 102.27 28. Thou art the Son and thy years shall have no end The Children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall be established before thee There could be no strength in the Argument without union and communion with him The Church is settled upon him as a Foundation and therefore is of as long a duration as the Foundation upon which it stands the conjunction is so strait that if one fails the other must especially since as Christ is the head the Church is his fulness Eph. 1.22 23. Sion cannot be compleat but in him and Christ cannot be compleat without her A Foundation is of little use without a Superstructure a building falls not without a discredit to the Foundation upon which it stood Sions compleatness depends upon the strength of Christ and Christs mystical compleatness depends upon the stability of Sion he will not leave himself an imperfect and empty head 2. 'T is founded upon the Covenant Upon that which endures for ever and shall survive the Funeral of the whole world Heaven and Earth shall pass away but the Church is founded upon that which shall not pass away 1 Pet. 1.23 the Word of God c. Not such a word as that whereby he brought forth light in the world and form'd the Stars at the Creation a word that engaged him not to the perpetuating of it * Tarretin Sermons p. 330. This Covenant is more firm than the Pillars of Heaven and the Foundations of the Earth The Stars of Heaven shall dissolve the Sun shall be turned into darkness the Elements shall change their order for confusion But the Church being founded upon an eternal and immutable Covenant shall subsist in the midst of the confusions and flames of the world Isa 54.10 The Mountains shall depart and the Hills be removed but my Covenant of Peace shall not be removed 'T is more establish'd than the world The Apostle clearly intimates it in his commendation of Abraham's Faith when he tells us He looked for a City which hath foundations by virtue of the promise of a numerous seed Heb. 11.9 10. As if the world had no foundation in comparison of the Church 'T is beyond the skill of Hell to raze up the foundation and therefore impossible for it to beat down
God shall establish her stability is not to be found out of her To depart from her is to leave a firm Rock to find security in a quick-sand To leap out of a stout Ship in a storm to expect a preservation in the waves To turn our backs upon Heaven to seek ease in the bowels of Hell The Altar at Damascus is cast down and Jeroboam's Altar is demolisht when that at Jerusalem stood To stay in Sion is to be exposed to the gun-shot of men and Devils to run from her is to seek to the Devil for protection and run into the mouth of all the Artillery of God that is set for the establishment of Sion If we are Christians no force nor violence should separate us from her 2. Let us love Sion There is nothing the Scripture uses more as an argument to separate our affections from the world than the uncertainty and fading nature of it The perpetuity then of the Church should be a motive to place our affections there where they shall never want an object and which we cannot love without loving her head and her establisher The Jews in Babylon would rather forget themselves than their City and Temple Psal 137.5 6. Our affections to Gospel Sion should be more tender since God hath poured out more of his Spirit upon her and she is more amiable in his eye That which the Jews so much affected is perished But the true Sion is eternal and shall flourish for ever The highest himself hath an establishing affection to her Let our affections to her equal the malice of the Enemies against her since we have greater incentives to love her than they can have to hate her While others cry Raze Raze it even to the ground let us at least testify our affections and if we have not her standing walls to love let us not estrange our tenderness from her very dust Psal 102.14 There is a pleasure to be taken in her stones because they shall be again set in their place a favour to be shewn to her dust because it shall be again compacted and enjoy a resurrection For the highest that hath promised to establish her will not desert her in her ruins v. 16. When the Lord shall build up Sion he shall appear in glory we have therefore more ground to favour her dust than to admire the proudest palaces 3. Let us desire the Establishment of Sion more than our own private Establishment 'T is the Sign of a gracious Spirit to look not only on his own things but the things of others Phil. 2.4 And what things of others should be regarded if the things of Christ and his Spouse be over-looked No private person hath any promise of establishment but as he is a Denison of Sion as one born in her In desiring therefore the welfare of Sion we wish and make way for the establishing of our selves our interests are common with hers Her prosperity therefore should be the first and last of our wishes When we wish the stability of Sion we wish the honour of God the continuance of his worship the glorifying his name which is deposited in that cabinet The glory of God cannot flourish if the Church perish How base then are those that if they can swim in a worldly prosperity care not if the Church be drowned in tears and bloud that cloth themselves and regard not her nakedness that provide an earthly Canaan for themselves and care not what desolate desert Sion sits weeping in 4. Let us endeavour the establishment of Sion 'T is a grateful thing to a Prince to favour his favorite Let us be as forward to enlarge her Territories as the Devil and his instruments are to increase the Suburbs of hell The Highest himself will establish her by himself we must therefore take those methods which are agreeable to the chief preserver A complyance with the Enemies of God was never the way to secure the interest of Sion A divine work in a divine way will meet with divine assistance To contribute to the establishment of Sion is a work honourable in it self since it is the work of God himself 'T is an imitation of the highest pattern In this we are associates and coworkers with God For the Highest himself shall establish Sion A DISCOURSE UPON THE Fifth of November Exod. 15.9 10. The Enemy said I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoil my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword my hand shall destroy them Thou didst blow with thy wind the Sea covered them they sank as Lead in the mighty waters AN Anniversary Commemoration of a memorable Deliverance falling upon this Day hath caused a diversion of my thoughts to look back not only upon a mercy never to be forgotten but to look forward to that Deliverance which is to come parallel to this in the Text. Israel was a Type of the Church Pharaoh a type of the Churches Enemies in all Ages of the world both of the spiritual Enemy Satan and of the temporal his Instruments The Deliverance was a type of the Deliverance that Christ wrought upon the Cross by his Blood Also of that Christ works by his power upon his Throne the one from the Reign of Sin the other from the Empire of Antichrist This was the Exemplar of all the deliverances the Church was to have As the Assyrian should lift up a staff against Jerusalem after the manner of Aegypt so the Lord should lift his rod up for them upon the Sea after the manner of Aegypt when the Yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing Isa 10.26 27. when the power of the Enemies shall be destroyed by the strength of Christ The Lord himself makes it his pattern in those victories he is to gain for his people when he calls upon his arm to awake as in the ancient days when he cut Rahab and wounded the Dragon and made the depths of the Sea a way for the ransom'd to pass over Isa 51.9 10 11. then the redeemed of the Lord shall come with singing unto Sion the Song of Moses while they stand upon a Sea of Glass a brittle frail and stormy world Rev. 15.3 And our Redeemer makes this his pattern rule when he comes to tread the Wine-press in wrath and make them drunk with his fury that then he would remember the days of old Moses and his people when he divided the water before them to make himself an everlasting name Isa 63.1.2.11 that his power may be as glorious in the latter as it was in the former and all deliverances of the Church from the beginning to the end be knit together to be an everlasting matter of praise to his name This Historical narration is to have a more universal accomplishment the deliverance from Aegypt is promised to be fulfilled a second time and God would act the same part over again as also their deliverance from Ogg King of Bashan after the ascension