be thou perfect Now lest he should object and say Ah Lord They that do walk perfectly before thee will meet with many troubles be exposed to many hardships and losses well saith God matter it not I am the Almighty God the Alsufficient God Let the Troubles of his People be never so great yet the Lord is Almighty great in Power and strength Now seriously consider this first thing as part of the Name of God remember Gods Name I AM He is the same now as ever he was as Powerful as ever as Strong as ever as Mighty as ever This is his Name for Ever and his Memorial unto all generations Oh suffering Christians give me leave to tell you that your Fathers Power is your greatest Pillar of support in times of difficulties See that pretious Text in 2 Chron. 16.9 The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of those whose hearts are perfect towards him From hence note That there is Mighty Power and strength in God handed forth and exercised for the good of his People This truth really believed how mightily would it caution the Lords People to take heed of fears and to live above them One word of Use and I conclude this Oh let us sing Songs of praise of our Gods Power it is true Gods Power is matter of fear and terror to the wicked but its matter of comfort and joy to the Saints Psal 59.16 I will sing of thy Power when the soul is in great troubles and sufferings and consider what God is what his Name is that he is the Mighty Powerful God and then consider that he is the same His Name is I AM that the poor soul is ready to sing forth of Gods Power Believe it fellow Christians you are in the hand of God Deut. 33.3 Observe all his Saints are in his hand not some but all oh you be safe enough there is none can pluck you out of your fathers hand and besides he hath all Power in his hand 2 Chron. 19.6 Oh then my dear Brethren be not hopeless for God leaves you not helpless What can harm you you have the Power of God to arm you then labour to undergo all here for you shall not onely be delivered from all but be conquerors over all This is the first thing A Second thing relating to Gods Name wherein he is the same now as ever and that is his Wisdom He is as Wise now as ever and as Prudent in managing his Peoples concernments as ever Oh the great Wisdom of our God in ordering our affaires it 's matter of great Comfort and Consolation But first we will see what the Scripture saith concerning Our Gods Wisdom Rom. 16.27 To God onely Wise be glory As God is Wise so He is onely Wise none like Him 1 Tim. 1.17 To the onely Wise God be glory Col. 2.3 In whom are hid all the treasures of VVisdom and Knowledge In our God are treasures of Wisdom Consider this dear friends is there any Trouble or Calamity befalls you that you know not how to come out of it or be rid of it well remember that your God hath Treasures of VVisdom and Knowledge Isa 40.28 There is no searching of the Lords Understanding it is so deep and large and therefore though that cannot be searched yet it can search all things God is the alone and onely VVise God now in 1 Cor. 1.25 there is a saying something strange that the Apostle speaks and some would be apt to conclude that it was something contradictory to what hath been said his words are that the foolishness of God is wiser then men intimating as if there were some Foolishness in God the Apostle doth not speak nor intend it in the least but he was speaking of upbraiding mens wisdom that to such the foolishness of God was wiser he doth not say the foolishness in God but of God but had allusion to the Saints whom as foolish things of God were chosen to confound the Wise Now God is so perfect in Wisdom that the very Angels he chargeth with folly and it 's said of the Lords Understanding that it is Infinite Now consider this seriously God is great in Wisdom and as he was always so he is now I AM THAT I AM that is His Name for Ever a Wise God that by his wise disposing of things can make all things work for good and can turn all your troubles and sufferings to the best advantage or profit that you shall reap the fruit thereof with great gain and increase He by His Wisdom can order the Saints troubles and sufferings to be further footings to glory and happiness that by his Wisdom can allure His People into the Wilderness and there speak comfortably to them Now what a comfort is it to consider that our Gods Name is I AM still the same to His People as ever He was A word to Apply this Is our God onely and alone Wise Then let us leave all our Concernments and affairs to his dispose Our Father knows what is best for us and what will conduce to our good and His glory Well to proceed to the Third thing and that is the Faithfulness of God Gods Faithfulness is of mighty weight and concernment that His Name is I AM the Faithful God as Faithful now as ever Gods Faithfulness consists chiefly in fulfilling and performing and making good all Promises and Prophesies See the voice of the Scripture concerning this Truth Deut. 7.8 9. But because the Lord God loved you here was the Mercy of God and because He would keep the Oath which he sware unto your Fathers here was the Faithfulness of God the Lord hath brought you out with a Mighty hand here is the Power of God and redeemed you from the house of bondmen and out of the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt here is declared the Justice of God Thus consider see and observe here you have His Name which he sent by Moses to his People I AM THAT I AM this is my Name for Ever See what the Lord saith further in the ninth Verse Know therefore that the Lord thy God He is God What God A Faithful God which keepeth Covenant and Mercy with those that love Him and keep His Commandments to a thousand generations The Lord is not onely exactly compleatly and perfectly Faithful but he is mighty large in his Faithfulness the extent of it reacheth to a thousand Generations Here the Lord includes and intends all his People that are or ever will be in the VVorld One Generation continues about a hundred years if not more Now it s not reasonable to imagine that there would be from that time these words were spoken to the end of the World a thousand Generations Onely this Scripture shews the large extent of the Faithfulness of God it reaches all Saints in all Ages even to a thousand Generations if it be possible there may be
SUTABLE COMFORTS FOR Suffering Sion OR SAINTS INTEREST in GOD their Chiefest SUPPORT in times of greatest Straits BEING A Brief DISCOVERY of what GOD is to his People in all Ages Which is of great Weight and Use to His in these Trying Times Written by EDWARD DELAMAINE at present under Restraint and a PRISONER of HOPE ISAIAH 40.1 2. Comfort ye Comfort ye my People saith your God Speak comfortably to them LONDON Printed by Simon Dover and are to be Sold at his House in Christophers Alley in Martins Le Grand 1661. SUTABLE COMFORTS FOR Suffering Sion OR SAINTS INTEREST in GOD their Chiefest Support in times of greatest Straits DEar Brethren and fellow Companions of the Kingdom of God This is the day of Jacobs Trouble of Josephs Affliction of Zions Trials and of the Calamities of the whole Israel of God And I find that the People of God in general are very prone and incident to be Troubled Cast down and Disquieted And I find that it is the Design of God that his People should be Comforted Consolated and Refreshed Therefore in order thereunto I shall offer something that may answer the End and Design of God And the Portion of the Word of God which I intend to make the Ground of my Discourse for my own and others Edification is Recorded in that precious Scripture Exod. 3.14 and the last part of Vers 15. And God said to him I AM THAT I AM Say unto them I AM hath sent thee This is my Name for Ever and my Memorial unto all Generations In order to these Words we may consider Three things 1. The Author of these Words 2. The Person to whom they were Spoken 3. The Occasion why they were Spoken For the First The Author of them was the great God of Heaven the Disposer of all things the Judge of the whole Earth the King of kings and Lord of lords and therefore considering the Greatness and Worthiness of Him that speaks we should have the higher esteem and give the more diligent heed to what he saith 2. The Person to whom these Words were spoken and that was Moses of whom Three things are mighty Remarkable and Considerable First His Love to God in that he forsook all earthly Pleasures and Delights and Chose rather to suffer Affliction with the People of God Ah! there be few that take Moses Choice that choose Goodness more than Greatness esteeming Poverty better than Riches and count Godliness more Gain than Wickedness and rather hazard Bonds and Sufferings than the Violation of their Consciences with false Swearing c. That account Raggs with Christ though on a Dunghil more than Robes without Christ though on a Throne Secondly Another thing Considerable in Moses was his Meekness which is much commended in him Numb 12.3 Now the man Moses was very Meek above all the men that were in the Earth this is a Christ-like Spirit a Mild Gentle Spirit and to exercise such a Spirit to those that are of a Froward Peevish Proud Disposition is an excellent Frame not to return evil for evil but good for evil to use gentleness and mildness for bitterness and frowardness is a Carriage that makes Christians look most like God Now Moses was not onely Meek but very Meek and that above all the men that were upon the Earth A Third thing Remarkable in Moses was his Faithfulness for God See how it is spoken to his Praise Numb 12.7 compared with Heb. 3.2 Touching his Faithfulness you have Three things First His being Faithful to declare to the People the whole mind of God as God communicated it to him Now when God took him up into the Mount he might have taken liberty to have varied and no body have questioned him either to have added or to have diminished to what God had left in charge with him no he doth not but is Faithful to that Trust delivered to him Secondly He was Faithful in doing what God Commanded from him in performing Gods Requirements to him Exod. 11.26 and therefore when he tells Pharaoh That God would have the Children of Israel and all they had go up with them to Worship Pharaoh was not willing that their Cattel and Flocks should go Nay saith Moses We must not leave a hoof behind So Faithful was he for God that not a tittle of the Service of God must be omited or left undone Thirdly His Faithfulness to God appeared in that he closely followed and served the Lord even to his last day He persevered to the last in a full and faithful following of the Lord and therefore the Lord writes this praise and commendation on Moses He was faithful in all things Thus much shall suffice as touching the Person to whom the Words were spoken Now I come to the Third thing the Occasion Why the Words of my Text were spoken And in that we shall consider many things very Remarkable First Moses goes to tend upon his Father-in-Law's flock and in his way sees a Bush burning and turning about said I will see this great sight why the Bush burns and is not consumed The Admiration or Wonder in Moses was not so much that the Bush burned but that it burned and was not consumed this was the Wonder then and it 's the Wonder now yea and will be in all Ages Give me leave to enlarge a little upon it This Bush I compare to the People of God and the Fire or Burning to Afflictions and Persecutions Now it hath been the Marvel in all Ages that the Bush hath burned and hath not been consumed that the People of God have been wonderfully carried forth in the midst of fiery Tryals that they have seemed rather to overcome then to be overcome rather conquerers then conquered to be living daily though dying daily and this hath occasioned marvel and wonder to the men of the World Witness those three Children in Daniel that were in the burning Furnace and yet not consumed Witness those worthy Martyrs of late days whose life and liveliness in Suffering made their Adversaries amazed that the Bush burned and was not consumed when they saw their inward man lived and renewed in the midst of their dying and bitter deaths Now if the men of the World would do like diligent Moses turn aside and be inquirous to behold this great sight to search into the cause thereof they might have their marvel taken away and their wonder removed Moses looked and belold the Lord was in the midst of the Bush Hence see the cause that the People of God have been most Eminently preserved in the Inward-man and have been born up above and beyond all speakings in the midst of all Trials and Sufferings God was in the midst of them there was and is a very gracious Presence of His accompanying and assisting of them This is the Reason this is the Ground why the Bush burns and is not consumed So they in the fire were preserved Dan. 3.24 25. Now when the Lord out
of the Bush had called to Moses He said in the seventh Verse I have surely seen the Affliction of my People in Egypt Hence observe That God takes notice of his Peoples Affliction yea special notice I have surely seen saith God Oh suffering Souls your Consolations are not small the Eyes of Heaven are upon you and your sufferings the Eye of Love and the Eye of Pity is not onely President over you but Present with you be you never so remote or obscure in Suffering that Eye of Divine Majesty that runs to and fro throughout the whole Earth will be first on you I have saith God surely seen the Affliction of my People in Egypt This is a sweet Word of God My People though Afflicted yet Mine though Oppressed and Hated yet My People It 's not their Sufferings their Miseries their Afflictions that can un-people them that can break that great cord of Union and Relation between God and his People My People though Oppressed and Persecuted yet My People They are never the more Unlovely in my Eyes never the more Uncomely though they are trampled upon as dirt and made as the off-scouring of the World yet I am not ashamed to own them I am not ashamed to acknowledge them to be My People and therefore I will own them and stand by them They are indeed by their Oppressors and Persecutors having the rod of the wicked over them making surrows upon them represented very Unlovely very Uncomely very Despicable and Contemptible yet nevertheless there is not a tittle of my Affection and Love that I bear to them abated or diminished they are My People yea and in Egypt God doth not onely own his People in the worst of Conditions but in the worst of Places also And therefore he saith I have surely seen the Affliction of my People in Egypt Egypt was called The House of Bondage The Nation of their Oppression The Land wherein they were Slaves and Strangers Yet there God owns them My People in Egypt It is not Places that makes God at all Disaffected with his People though they be thrown into Newgate or elsewhere the shamfullest of Goals by his cruelty whose tender mercies are no better nor nothing else yet there will God own them the loathsomest Dungeons shall not at all keep God from Communion with his People He will own them though in Egyt and saith God I know their Sorrows Know their Sorrows he doth and will he not remedie it Yea surely As if the Lord should say I am acquainted with all their Griefs I am concerned in all their sufferings Oh Christians believe this Truth That God sees all the Afflictions of his People and knows their Sorrows God sees for this end and knows for this end that he might the better communicate seasonable good to his People And in Verse 10. saith God Come now therefore that thou mayest bring the Children of Israel out of Egypt Come now saith God now is my Time now is my Opportunity now is my fit Season to Deliver My People God's Time of working Deliverance for his People is when they are in the midst of the greatest straits and sufferings Now the Lord is imploying and sending Moses with a Message both to Pharaoh and to his People Moses very much opposeth it and with the Lord pleads two things 1. His own Unworthiness Who am I saith he that I should go to Pharaoh that I should be imployed in the service of the great God of Heaven The Lord takes off this Objection by Answering I will be with thee The Worthiness of Gods assisting Presence will far surmount and exceed Moses his Unworthiness One thing here you have worth observing and that is That it is not the Meanness Lowness Unworthiness simply considered of poor creatures that doth exclude or exempt them from Gods service or acceptance but sin will hinder from both A Second thing that Moses pleads against his being imployed is Ignorance of Gods Name He did not know what Name of God he should carry to his poor suffering People This God answers and declares and so I come to my Text. I AM THAT I AM I AM hath sent unto them this is my Name for Ever and my memorial unto all generations In which Words you have Three things 1. A Description or Discovery of the Name of God I AM THAT I AM or what I ever was 2. The Perpetuity and Continuance of His Name This is my Name for EVER 3. The use of it to his People This is my Memorial unto all generations From the Occasion of the Words you have this Observation That God Proportions out Sutable and Seasonable Mercies and Comforts to his Peoples State and Condition You may see that this Truth ariseth naturally from the occasion of these Words if you consider that these were a People under great Promises from the Lord and also from Men under great Sufferings and Oppressions Now to this Afflicted Oppressed People God sends this Message this errand I AM THAT I AM No Name of God had been so Sutable so Seasonable as this I AM the same that ever I was I shall shew anon in due place how Seasonable how Sutable this Name of God is to his Suffering People If God had sent to his People his Name Jah or Jehovah it had been something but it had not been so seasonable as I AM. God usually stays and delays Deliverance that it may come most Seasonable and Sutable to his Peoples Conditions Why must they be four hundred years in Affliction May not two hundred years serve No at the end of four hundred years is Gods time for Deliverance then will his Mercies come most Seasonable And truly this I am perswaded is the very Reason why God seems to keep away deliverance from his People they are not yet come to the greatest of straits the Mercy will not come so Seasonable and Sutable as God would have it I might be large upon this Point but I shall not at this time though it is a Truth of great concernment I shall only prove it with an Instance or two with some Reasons and then proceed to what remains which is much upon my heart See Gen. 21. from vers 15. to 21. Poor Agar was in great distress she and the Babe was like to perish for want of water she was in the greatest of Straits gave her self and babe over for death past all hope of life Oh then was Gods time then was his time to appear and that with a Sutable and Seasonabe Mercy to her State and Condition and pray What was that Her condition was such that she had like to have died with Drought want of Drink for she was in a Remote and barren Wilderness behold God communicates to her a Well of Water From hence see That God proportions out Seasonable and Sutable Mercies Comforts to his Peoples Wants Necessities From this Remarkable instance in Agar you have many considerable things 1. That
Gods People in their greatest Straits and Wants make their recourse by Prayer to God this good Agar did The times of tribulation ought especially then to be the times of supplication Christs Suffering hour was his praying hour Times of Afflictions puts Saints upon Petitions at the Throne of Grace 2. Strange and unexpected ways and means of Deliverance hath God for his People This is a glorious Truth but I must but name it Little did poor Agar think to find Supplies in the Wilderness no visible means attainable 3. Observe That there are such Bowels of Mercy and Love in God towards his that he usually yea frequently not onely grants their Desires but gives them more yea over and above Poor Agar begs a little Water of God to preserve the life of her and her little babe and lo God gives her a Well of Water So Solomon asked for Wisdome God did not onely give him That but Riches and Honour also I must proceed A Second notable Instance you have is concerning Sampson Judg. 15.18 19. He having a very great thirst like to die the Lord in a miraculous maner preserved him and communicated a Sutable Mercy to him and gave him Water out of the Jaw-bone of an Ass One thing here I shall mind unto you that is Sometimes I have marvelled at the exceeding Drought and Thirst that came upon Sampson immediately after the Deliverance obtained by the help of the Lord against his Enemies I suppose that his great Thirst came not by reason of his great Fighting He might be thirsty but not upon that account unto death considering the Lord helped him But now for him to be by thirst near death there lies something in it and therefore I humbly judge that this thirst was sent as a Judgement from the Lord and that upon two accounts 1. His too much Vaunting Applauding and Praising of himself for this Victory See his high proud Words With the Jaw of an Ass have I slain a thousand men 2. Not returning the Praise and Honour to whom it was due and therefore the Lord might be angry displeased with him to shew him his own weakness frailty and infirmity that he might not glory in himself but to see that without the Lords assistance he was but a dead man therefore I conceive this thirst came And then betook himself to prayer and though after mercy received he was unmindful of his duty yet now his great wants and straits make him mind his duty and help and when Sampson had tasted of Gods anger then you shall have him acknowledge God having a hand in the Deliverance but not before So likewise the Prophet having fled into the Wilderness being driven to great wants the Lord administred food to him by Ravens and so the Lord communicated Sutable Comforts to his Servant I might name many more but I would hasten and briefly now give you the Reasons of it I shall at present name but two Why God proportions out Sutable Mercies to his Peoples Conditions The First is To enlarge their Experiences of Him Not a Sutable Mercy or Comfort comes to us from God but it is to stock us with Experience for Experience of God's goodness is of great use to a dependance on God Secondly It is To heighten our Praises to Him that we may much be carried forth in new Songs of Praises to the Lord. A word of Use to this and so proceed and come to the thing I aim at Seeing God doth proportion out Sutable Comforts to his Peoples Conditions then be Exhorted To walk Sutable to such a God as this is be perswaded to walk answerable to a God of such Sutable Comforts and seasonable Mercies Oh the Sutable Comforts that his poor Servants have enjoyed in their Bonds and Sufferings that when all the World shall frown then to have the God of Heaven smile that when the World strips us of all outward Injoyments then to have them made up with inward and special Injoyments when the men of the World put a bitter cup into our hands then for our Father to sweeten it for us when we hear the worst news from Earth we can then have the best news from Heaven Oh this is Seasonable and Sutable Comfort It 's true we want our Liberties but yet we have the blessed Liberty of the Sons of God It 's true we are in Bonds under Restraint Oh but yet our souls are not in bonds our Consciences are not captivated to sins and lusts it 's true we are in the hands of cruel and unreasonable men but yet we are in the hands of a faithful Creator Fellow-sufferers consider it and believe it you that experience Gods goodness in Sutable Comforts to you know that he expects that it should work rare effects in you and produce eminent and sutable walkings towards him Thus much for the first thing being occasional from the Words I shall now come to the chief thing I aime at I AM THAT I AM this is my Name for Ever and my Memorial unto all Generations The Doctrine Conclusion or wholsome Truth which arises from these Words is this That the great and serious Consideration of Gods Name I AM being the same to his People in all ages is of mighty use and benefit to Comfort and Consolate the hearts and spirits of his People in the midst of all their Troubles and Sufferings This is a great and weighty Truth and there lieth much sap and marrow in it and therefore I do earnestly desire that it may dwell in the hearts of all the Suffering sons of Sion this day and this Truth I judge ariseth naturally from the Words for in the Doctrine you may observe these several Branches 1. That Gods Name is I AM. 2. That it is so for EVER to his People 3. That the serious consideration thereof is of use to Comfort and Consolate the People of God in their Sufferings Now consider well the Text and you shall find this Truth couched in it And consider the Persons to whom it was communicated being the People of the Lord under great Sufferings and Troubles and you may plainly perceive that the great aime and designe of God here is that his People through a serious Consideration of his Name I AM THAT I AM should be much consolated and refreshed in the midst of their Troubles and Sufferings In the managing of this weighty Truth I shall lay down Four Things I. Prove it to you and shew you what is Gods Name and how it endures for Ever II. Declare how and wherein Gods Name I AM is the same to his People in all ages and shew you that this Truth is of mighty use and benefit to bear up their hearts in Suffering III. Give you the Reasons of this Truth which are very considerable Why the Lords Name I AM THAT I AM is his Name for EVER and continued to his People to all Generations IV. Give you the wholsome and seasonable Uses and Conclusions
so many while the VVorld continues Oh lay up this Word of God in your hearts our God is a Faithful God 1 Cor. 10.13 God is Faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able but will with the temptation make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it The faithfulness of God is as much ingaged in his Peoples sufferings as any other of His Attributes In His Peoples Sufferings His Faithfulness is engaged Three ways First that their Sufferings shall not exceed 1. His Precepts to them 2. Other Saints before them 3. The strength he gives them Secondly His Faithfulness is engaged that in their Sufferings for Him He will stand by them own them and be with them Thirdly His Faithfulness is ingaged to make good his Promises to them in delivering and freeing them from troubles Oh Christians are your troubles and Sufferings great and like to be greater and you are even ready to sink under them well remember your Gods Name I AM THAT I AM He is the Faithful God as Faithful now as ever Psal 36.5 Thy Mercy O Lord is in the Heavens and thy faithfulness reacheth to the clouds This Scripture holds forth the multitude or abundance of Gods Faithfulness that it reacheth to the clouds As wicked mens sins when they are multitudes and numerous they are said to reach up to Heaven so the Faithfulness of God is so continued to his that it even reacheth up to the clouds Psal 119.90 Thy Faithfulness is to all generations This also is a precious Scripture that no soul in no age though in the last days and in the latter end of the World when wickedness will abound and strange and dark Providences with desmal dispensations will be seen in the earth yet Gods faithfulness abides still it endures unto all generations therefore no soul in what age or state soever should be cast down or troubled but to mind the Name of God I AM THAT I AM the Faithful God Oh that Christians in all their troubles and sufferings would have an eye to the Faithfulness of God and unfeignedly believe it for it 's of mighty use to bear up your hearts in the midst of troubles and truly I am perswaded that when God sent Moses with his Name I AM to his afflicted People he had thus much in his eye and upon his heart His Faithfulness in keeping Covenant with them and performing His Promises to them The Faithfulness of God is one of his principal Attributes and the great splendor and beauty of his Name though all the Attributes of God are Perfect What were it if I may speak with holy reverence for God to be Powerful and Wise if not Faithful The Faithfulness of God is the great Bulwark of his People in their Troubles Consider that in no age there was no Saint whatsoever to whom God was unfaithful If some say there may be some one or other shew me that man or woman what is their Name where dwell they when was it or where was it that God was not Faithful I dare engage my soul and its eternal welfare that God is not unfaithful to any of his Far be it from me or any to think that there is unfaithfulness in God His People may be unfaithful to Him but He will not be so to them If there be any of Gods Promises not performed it 's not His fault but His Peoples His Promises being Conditional they breaking or not keeping the Condition and so miss of the Promise to which the Condition is annexed They break their Words and Promises with the Lord but as for God Let Him be true and every man a liar nay it 's impossible for God to lye Thus much for the Third thing A Fourth thing concerning Gods Name is His Justice God is very Just and Righteous and that is in rendering punishment on his Enemies Dear Friends your Enemies are great and they are many and their malice cruelty and oppression is very much and increased Well be not troubled remember you the Name of your God I AM He is Just yea and as Just now as ever in punishing his enemies Turn to the Testimony Psal 9.16 The Lord is known by the Judgments which he executeth the wicked are ensnared in the work of their hands Higgaion Selah This is a Scripture of great weight There are two ways whereby he is known to the World 1. By His Mercies 2. By His Judgements And they that will not know Him the former way shall know him the latter But what shall the wicked know of God by his Judgements that he is a Just God a Righteous God and saith the Spirit of God The wicked are ensnared in the work of their own hands This is a certain and assured truth That wicked mens handy-works or their actions prove their own ensnaring This was true in Ahithophel Haman and Judas and therefore the Lord writes upon this Scripture Higgaion Selah that is to be often Observing and diligently Meditating on it to see the Justice and Equity of God to the wicked in that their own works should ensnare them Job 34.17 God is called there most Just exactly and compleatly Just as God is faithful in rewarding His People so he is as faithful and Just in punishing the Wicked I will make a little Use of this and so hasten Fret not your selves at the Prosperity and welfare of the wicked your enemies neither do you seek after revenging your cause on them commit that to the Lord Vengeance is His and he is both Mighty and Able to deal with your adversaries and He will do it in His due time For He will plead the controversies of His People against their enemies And believe it the Lord is cutting short the work and hastening the ruine and destruction of his enemies by their filling up the measure of their iniquities and ripening their sins and the deliverance of His People draweth nigh by his casting them into the Furnace of Affliction to purge and purifie them that they may come forth like Gold Again The Fifth and last thing relating to the Name of God I AM. He is the God of all comforts and consolation Oh this Name I AM is a precious Name there is exceeding great Comforts and Cordials in God for the refreshing of his poor Peoples Spirits 2 Cor. 1.3 Blessed the God the God of our Lord Jesus the Father of Mercies and God of all Comforts There is in our God such a Store-house and Fountain of Mercies and Comforts that is able to supply all His Peoples wants and necessities Zechariah 1.17 The Lord shall yet Comfort Zion Notwithstanding the great discouragements and distresses of Gods People yet Comforts God hath in store for poor bleeding and languishing Sion 2 Cor. 7.6 Nevertheless God that Comforteth those that are cast down Comforteth us Oh the choice Comforts that God hath for his dejected People Though God hath in all ages been open handed and hearted