out of all Countreys and bring them into their own land would build their ruined places He the Lord had spoken it and would perform it v. 5 6.24 36. and in Ezek. 37. O my people come out of your graves and again O my people c. And in Esa 41.9 10. Thou art my servant I have chosen thee and will not cast thee away fear not I am with thee be not dismayed for I will help thee yea I wil uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness and v. 13 14. I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand saying unto thee Fear not I will help thee fear not thou worm Jacob ye men of Israel I will help thee saith the Lord and thy Redeemer the holy one of Israel and in Esa 49.14 15 16. where Sion said The Lord hath forsaken me and my God hath forgotten me It 's answered Can a woman forget her sucking childe that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb yea they may forget yet will not I forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the palmes of my hands c. And in Jer. 30.10 Fear thou not O my servant Jacob saith the Lord neither be dismayed O Israel for lo I will save thee from afar and thy seed from the land of their captivity and Jacob shall return and shall be in rest and he quiet and none shall make him afraid These with many promises more of like tendency for the comfort and support of this people the natural seed of Jacob are scattered throughout the Scripture And that after their deliverance out of this their great trouble They will become the mightiest people and Nation upon the earth Mich. 4 1 6 7 8 it being said of these That they shall be among the Gentiles as a lion among the flocks of sheep who if he go thorow both treadeth down and teareth in pieces and none can deliver and all their enemies shall be cut off Mich. 5 8 9 These shall be like a harth of fire among wood and like a torch of fire in a sheaf and shall devour all the people round about on the right hand and on the left Zach 12 6 These shall be as the Lords battel Axe and weapons of war wherewith he will break in pieces the Nations and destroy the Kingdomes Jerem. 51 20 These are they whose horns shall be made Iron and hooss brass to break in pieces many people whose gain and substance shall be consecrated to the Lord of the whole earth Mich. 4.13 These are they that shall be as a fire and flame to the house of Esau to devour them for the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it Obed. 18 And then will be verified the Word of the Lord to Rebecca which he told her That two Nations were in her womb and that the elder should serve the younger Gen. 25 23 which is not to be understood of the two persons Esau Jacob as some unadvisedly do imagine for Esau never in person served nor worshipped Jacob as Jacob did Esau Gen. 33 3 13 15. but this was a prophesie concerning their posterities and to be fulfilled at the time of the Jews exaltation and power set forth by these Texts These are they that shall be made a new sharp threshing Instrument having teeth wherewith the Lord will thresh the mountains beat them small and make the hills as chaffe Esay 41.15 These are they to whom shall be restored Judges as at first and Counsellors as at the beginning and whose officers shall be peace and whose exactors righteousness Esa 1.26 and 60.17 These are they on whom the glory of the Lord will arise and so shine that the Gentiles may come to their light and Kings to the brightness of their rising so that the abundance of the Sea shall be converted to them and the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto them Esa 60 1. to 7 These are they of whom a little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong Nation Esa 60 22 These are they to whom Kings shall be their nursing fathers and Queens shall be their Nurses and shall bowe their faces to the earth and lick the dust of their feet Esa 49 23 These are they of whom Balaam prophesied That they should have the strength of a Unicorn to eat up the Nations their enemies break their bones and pierce them thorow with arrows and lie down as a lion and as a strong lion and who shall stirre him up Numbers 24.5 8 9. Who then can be meant but these that shall rise up for the Lord against evil doers and stand up against the workers of iniquity Ps 94.16 And in whose mouths shall be the praises of the Lord and a two edged sword in their hand To execute vengeance upon the Heathen and punishment upon the people and to have that honour to binde their Kings with chains and their Nobles with fetters of Iron Ps 149.6 7 8 9. These fore-cited texts in the general with many more the like are properly applicable to the Israelites the natural seed of Abraham at their return and restoration into their own land the land of Canaan as is evident to any rational man that carries not both his eyes in his pocket that shall but consult these texts particularly and impartially not being prejudiced by any uncouth and absurd senses put upon them by the traditions of men for when the text in Ier. 31 31 shall say thus Behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Juda not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt c. Which Covenant is again repeated long after in the same words to the same people Heb 8 besides the place in Jeremiah expresseth Gods further promise to them namely That after those dayes he would put his law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and that all of them should know the Lord and their iniquities should then be forgiven them verse 33 34 and in Ierem 32 40 41 42. the same Covenant is again repeated thus That the Lord would make an everlasting covenant with them that he will not turn away from them to do them good but would put his fear in their hearts that they should not depart from him yea he would rejoyce over them to do them good and would plant them in that land the land of Canaan assuredly with his whole heart and with his whole soul and like as he had brought all this great evil upon this people so he would bring upon them all the good that he promised them and in verse 37 39. it is said That God would gather them out of all Countreys whither he had driven them in his anger and in his fury and in great wrath and would bring them again in that
the Apostle reckoneth but as Milk for Babes who are unskilful in the word of righteousness Heb. 5.12 13 14 6.1 2. And would it not then be much wisdom in them so far to observe the prophilbition of Christ to his Apostless Luke 24.49 Act. 1.4.8 as to forbear teaching these points until they were undoubtedly assured of the truth of them themselves and endued with power from on high evidently to demonstrate the verity of them to other men wherby to convince them And in the mean time to teach men altogether such practical points as are evident to every rational mans understanding and conscience wherein they would find work enough much more profitable as to the forsaking of all kind of wicked sinful dishonest and deceitful dealings in their lives and conversations together with all kind of tyranny cruelty oppression injustice pride high and earthly-mindedness covetousness which is Idolatry and the root of all evil drunkenness and all other abuses of the good creatures of God in any kind of excess whatsoever suffering in the mean time many of their poor Brethren to pine away and starve for want of necessaries and on the contrary excite them to the diligent and constant practise of all honest virtuous pious just charitable good and conscionable living to the exercising mercy love and peace towards all men and to a despising of the riches honors and glories of this world shewing them the vanity and deceitfulness of them and the many thousand great evils and mischiefs which they certainly bring upon the lovers and possessors of them Hereby undoubtedly many great benefits would accrue unto themselves alwayes provided that indeed and in truth they reform their own affections and conversations accordingly which is absolutely necessary in the case For first Hereby they would free themselves from all the just contempts gainsayings and contradictions both of the Quakers all other men Secondly instead of mens envying hating and persecuting one another being now the usual product of their teachings they would breed amity peace and concord amongst men and in all likelyhood make their Congregations generally to consist of pious honest just and good men full of all courteous and civil deportment toward all both at home and abroad which would be no small Ornament Honor Benefit both to the place wherein they live and to the Commonwealth whereof they are Members And now for further illustration of the point in hand let us consider That when the Word of the Lord came to the Prophets of old and vvhen they had delivered it as Gods Word to them to vvhom it vvas sent and vvhen it had dispatched the business for vvhich it came then and not till then both it and its event was recorded and so became Scripture now though it was the Word of the Lord both when it came and vvhen it vvas delivered to them to vvhom it vvas sent yet it may be questioned whether it continued so in the writing of it I vvill instance only in the Prophet Jonah to whom the Word of the Lord came commanding him to arise and go to Nineveh and to cry and preach against it these words viz. Yet forty dayes and Nineveh shall be overthrown He went and did so whereupon they repented all which was aftervvard vvritten and so became Scripture But if the same Prophet in like manner had preached the same words to the same City any time after they had repented then it had been false and no Word of God at all unto them hovv then can it reasonably be accounted the Word of God either to that City or any other only by its being written and so becoming Scripture but to be meerly as a declaration what was the Word of God which he once sent by his Prophet to Nineveh upon which they repented and so escaped the Judgement threatned Nay suppose the same City had soon after relapsed into the the same sins yet the same Prophet could not without sin have preached the same words as Gods VVord unto them nor yet have pronounced the same Judgment nor any other as from the Lord against them vvithout some new Commission which might have been to pronounce some other Judgement or to have some shorter time allotted them for Repentance Many other Scriptures come under the like consideration Fourthly Because the Famine thratned by the Prophet Amos 8.11 12. that the Lord would send that men should wander from sea to sea from the North even to the East and run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord and should not find it cannot be understood of Scriptures or Bibles nay it were well if we had not cause to fear from the Apostles Prophecy 2 Tim. 4.3 4. and from experience That that or the like Famine hath befalne Christiendom it self even where and when Bibles with its matter and substance Professors and Teachers have been most plentiful See and consider if any other then Christian Professors and Teachers can be meant by that prophesie of Saint Paul Fifthly and lastly Because whereas it is said 1 Sam. 3.1 That the Word of the Lord was precious in those dayes this is not meant that Scripture or Bibles was then searce for the text renders the reason thereof to be because there was no open vision So where it is often mentioned in Scripture of Saul David and many others making inquiry of the Lord and of the Word of the Lord in matters of difficulty this is not meant that they had recourse to the Bible or Scripture for if that had been the meaning then Saul needed not in his distress to have sought to the Witch at Ender to help him to the speech with Samuel that so he might of him enquire the Word of the Lord. Nor if after the seeking to God by prayer the propencity or bent of mens spirits were the answer or Word of the Lord then Balaam by taking that course to know the mind of God had not missed of the advancement proposed to him by the King nor of being King himself if that had been the question and the desire and motion of his heart after his seeking God by prayer or otherwise had been the answer to that question and to be taken as the voice word and answer of the Lord. And indeed the offer of such great preferment and honor in this world by Balaack was a great temptation to Balaam but the offer of Kingdoms of this world and the glory of them was a temptation of the devils own invention sufficient enough in his judgment to have entangled and by consequence to have overthrown Christ himself and so to have frustrated all his glorious deelared purposes designes of freeing mankind from all kind of bondage and slavery whatsoever and instead thereof to have made him become subservient to him to keep men under all the slaveries wherein they were involved yea and to become a chief supporter of all subordinate corrupt interests of worldly and wicked men whereby
as the devils instruments they unjustly hold their Fellow-brethren as captives in oppression slavery It is therefore to be lamented when at any time we see him thrive in any such devillish project The Lord in mercy deliver every honest man from being overcome by any such temptation Amen But to find the word answer of God in the way aforementioned may apear to be very uncertain by this viz. If four pious men should each of them seek by prayer for an answer from God in one and the same thing be it of publicke concernment or otherwise wherein their interests judgements and perswasions are different and various each from other you will find the propencity and bent of their hearts and desires after prayer for the most part will vary as much as before which will manifest this to be no sound or sure way to find out or know the word or answer of God nor is this intended to discourage any from seeking to the Lord in any occasion but from trusting to the bent of their own hearts to be any sure Rule to know the answer of God by because that may be the effect of some pride or vain desire of wordly glory or of some other lust secretly lurking in the heart of man undiscerned for the heart of man being deceitful above all things who then can know his own heart or the secret turnings thereof Jer. 17.9.10.11 or who can say his heart is so pure and clean as to be quite purged from all kind of vain carnal and eatthly affection and lust he must then be no longer a man having flesh blood or any other infirmity like other men on earth but be equal to the purest Angel in heaven And now having proposed left these things to consideration we will proceed to the next Fourthly Mr. R Baxter a man of Eminency both for exquisite learning parts in his Saints Rest Part. 2. pag. 201. of the sixth Edition tells us thus viz. R.B. That Divine Faith hath ever a Divine Fvidence And in page 205. thus We must know it to be a Divine Testimony before we can believe Fide Divina And in page 211. he saith As Translations are no further Scripture then they agree with the Copies in the Original Tongues so neither are these Copies further then they agree with the Authographs or original Copies or with some Copies perused and approved by the Apostles Obj. But it is a thing worth the knowing of this Author Whether he or any man else can infallibly produce the Authographs or any such original Copies of the Bible as have been so perused and approved of by the Apostles and if none can do this how can they then prove any Copie or Translation to be true or Scripture as he phraseth it And if any can do this how shall it be known to be such without Divine Evidence undoubtedly to prove it Answ But to this he gives us a general answer in his Preface to his Book of Infidelity where he tells us R.B. That the Holy Ghost by special inspiration was the Author of the Scriptures and by extraordinary Endowments was the Author of the miracles which were wrought for its confirmation Obj. But here it is necessary that he tells us where when by whom those miracles were wrought which so confirmed the scriptures And in the second place he should tell us where which are those Scriptures that were so confirmed withal to produce some Divine Evidence to prove what he therein sayes before any wise man believe him for he himself in his Rest Pag. 201. before cited informs us R. B. That to believe implicitely That the Testimony is Divine or the Scripture is the Word of God this is not to believe God but to resolve our faith into some humane Testimony even to lay our foundation upon the Sand where all will fall at the next assault And yet notwithstanding in Pag 238. 239. of his Saints Rest before mentioned he tells us R.B. That something must be taken upon trust from man whether we will or no yet no uncertainty in our faith neither For 1. saith he The meer illitterate man must take it upon trust that the Book is a Bible which he hears read for else he knows not but it may be some other Book Obj. What! may he not take it so upon trust that the Book is a Bible and yet never the more know but it may be some other Book or doth not a mans simple taking a thing especially of such high concernment so groundlesly upon trust argue some diminution of his knowledg and wisdom too rather then any augmentation of either R. B. 2. That these words are in it which the Reader pronounceth 3. That it is translated truly out of the Original Languages Obj. How can it be translated truly and imperfectly or imperfectly and truly for in pag. 211. of the same Book he positively asserts That there is an impossibility that any Translation should perfectly express the sense of the Original R. B. 4. That the Hebrew and Greek Copies out of which it was translated are true authentick Copies 5. That it was originally written in these Languages 6. Yea and the meaning of divers Scripture-passages which cannot be understood without the knowledge of Jewish ustoms of Cronology Geography c. though the words were never â—o exactly translated all these with many more the vulgar must take upon the word of their Teachers Obj. Alas poor Vulgars what miserable hard tasks are here imposed upon you and almost all men with a must much like those put upon the children of Israel to make their full tale of brick without any allowance of straw whereby they were put to take up any stubble where-ever they could find it But can any wise man take these Doctrines to be divine or come from God they being so irrational and absurd and so contrary to him and his wayes who oppointed his Gospel to be dispensed not in an unknown Tongue or upon any such uncertainties to any but to all people in their own language himself also evidently and powerfully attesting the same otherwise he obligeth no man to take it for truth nor blameth any man for taking it otherwise And whereas he positively asserts in pag. 211. of his Saints Rest as before is noted R. B. That there is an impossibility that any Translation should perfectly express the sense of the Original Obj. It 's now incumbent on him to tell us whether it was the expressable imperfect sense in Translations or the unexpressable perfect sense of the Original that was so confirmed by miracles or whether it was all or any of those many books which are mentioned in Scripture and whereof we have neither original nor Copy that were so confirmed plain dealing herein would be very satisfactory and is even more then necessary In his book of Infidelity Part 1. Pag. 11. he tells us That R. B. Besides the sanctifying Spirit of Christ proper
then also will be fulfilled that promise to the righteous and meek to inherit the earth for ever Psa 37.9 11 18 29. although in the mean time in this life they lie under all oppression and tyranny of wicked men at whom the Lord laugheth for he seeth that his day is comming vers 13. even the same Lords day wherein Saint John was in the Spirit heard a great voice behind him like a trumpet and saw Christ being come in glory talking with him Rev. 1.7.10 to 20. and after seeing in vision the great transactions and mutations which Christ at his coming will really make upon the earth as that all the tribes of Israel were * The marking their houses with the blood of the passeover whereby to exempt them from hurt by the plagues judgments then to be poured out on their enemies the Egyptians was a lively type Exod. 12.12 which judgments may be counted but as flea-bitings in comparison of those that shall be poured out upon the world at their great and final deliverance by Christ himself sealed before liberty was given to hurt the earth chap. 7.3 To preserve them from being hurt by any of the great plagues then ready to be poured out upon their enemies the Antichristian world The great overthrow of the beast false prophet and the Kings of the earth with all their great and formidable Armies the fall of Babylon and destruction of the Whore The Kingdomes of this world to become the Kingdomes of Christ The new Jerusalem to come down from God out of heaven yea all things made new as new heavens and new earth which shall be so established that it cannot be moved Psal 93.1.96.10 not being created in vain but to be inhabited and remain world without end when Israel the very seed of Jacob shall be gathered together out of all Nations and be saved with an everlasting salvation Esa 11.12 Esa 45.17 18 19. and 60.20 yea the Gentiles shall bring their sons in their arms and their daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders Esa 49.22 Then the earth shall yield her increase and God even their own God shall * The Gentiles have great cause to long and pray for this mercy and blessing upon the Jews from the Lord that his way may be known upon earth and his saving health among all nations v. 1 2. for then will the law go out of Sion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem Esa 2.3 and then peace shall be established to the end of the earth Ps 46.9 not onely amongst men but among the beasts of the field also Esa 2.4 Esa 11.6 according to the Angels proclamation at the birth of Christ Luke 2.14 bless them and all the ends of the earth shall fear him Psal 67.6 7. Then shall a handful of corn be sown upon the top of the mountains the fruit whereof shall shake like Libanon and they of the city shal flourish like grass of the earth Psa 72.16 for then the Lord will make their wilderness like Eden and their desart like the garden of the Lord joy and gladnesshal befound therein thanksgiving and the voice of melody Esay the 51.3 Then shall they eat the riches of the Gentiles and in their glory shall they boast themselves for their shame they shall have double and for their confusion they shall rejoyce in their portion therefore in their own land they shall possess double everlasting joy shall be unto them Esa 61.6 7. And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles and their off-spring among the people All that see them shall acknowledge that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed vers 9 and hence it will be that ten men out of all languages of the nations shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying We will go with you for we have heard that God is with you Zach. 8.23 And then also the Lord will be a great King above all gods in whose hands will be the deep places of the earth and the strength of the hills will be his also Ps 45.3 4. Then the Lord with righteousness will judge the poor and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth Isa 11.4 The throne of iniquity shall then have no fellowship with him which frameth mischief by a law Ps 94.20 for all the horns of the wicked shall be then cut off and the horns of the righteous exalted Psal 75 10. yea the Lord will then utterly destroy and cast out all wicked and unrighteous oppressours and tyrants from off the face of the earth even in the sight of the righteous to their everlasting joy Ps 37 32. to 37. Prov. 10.30 Rev. 11.17 18. Matth. 13.41 Ps 21.8 9 10. whereupon the righteous will then say among themselves Come behold the works of the Lord what desolations he hath made upon the earth Ps 46.8 Then shall the Jews and the ten tribes be united in one Kingdome and never more be divided be brought again into their own land and dwell therein both they and their children and their childrens children for ever Ezek 37 although immediately before this their deliverance they shall be in such great affliction and dejection of spirit that they shall in their own sense account themselves a lost people cast off and quite forsaken of the Lord and without any hope of deliverance and this is most elegantly set forth under the similitude of dry bones and even as men quite dead and buried Ezek. 37. but even then out of this great tribulation of theirs which will be so great as there was never any the like upon any people since there was a nation upon the earth no nor ever shall be shall they be delivered and saved by Christ with an everlasting salvation Jer. 30.4 5 6 7. Dan. 12.1 Matth. 24.21 22. Luke 18.1 7 8. And therefore it is as I conceive that thoroughout the Scripture are scattered such eminent and emphatical expressions promises concerning this people to support them and prevent their fainting in this day of Jacobs trouble as then bidding them to look up and lift up their heads with comfort for then their redemption restoration the setting up the Kingdome of God will be nigh at hand Luke 21.26 27 28 30. And although many generations and nations shall perish and be forgotten from off the earth before that day come yet their generation or nation shall not pass away but be preserved to see this great deliverance and saving the whole house of Israel according to the promises and oath of God to Abraham Luke 1.68 to 76. Rom. 11.24 25 26 compared with Esa 59.20 c. Luke 21.32 33. Matth. 24.22 Esa 65.8 9. Luke 18.1 8. And in Ezek. 36. the Lord expresseth himself concerning this people thus In my jealousie in the fire of my jealousie and in my fury because ye have born the shame of the Heathen He would therefore take them from among the Heathen and gather them
place the land of Canaan and would cause them to dwell safely and would give them one heart and one way that they should fear him for ever for the good of them and their children after them Which plainly sets forth the conversion of the Jews to the true fear of God and never more to depart from him and their being gathered out of all Countreys into their own land again to be there safely planted assuredly both they and their children after them to fear the Lord for ever which was never yet performed to this people It cannot be meant that this Covenant is promised to be made with any Gentile believers or Churches already converted whose fathers were never led by the hand out of Egypt nor planted in the land of Canaan to be there again re-planted much less can it be meant of every Gentile Church or Congregation of supposed believers as it is usually expounded and applied by the several Pastors and Ministers to their respective Congregations but they may as soon make me believe that all they say is truth as to believe this exposition of theirs or that this is not meant of Israel and Juda the very natural seed of Jacob or that it doth not mean the general conversion and gathering of that people into their own land again out of which they have been driven even the natural Israelites whose conversion Saint Paul also positively asserts Rom. 11. by the name of Israel the natural branches and his kinsmen according to the flesh affirming them to be holy and beloved for their fathers sake even when they were broken off and in the state of unbelief wherein they yet remain unto this day terming the Christian Romans though their faith was then famous throughout the whole world Gentiles and in comparison of them but wild branches cut out of the wilde Olave-tree and then after many hints of their coversion of their being received and graffed in again at last affirms that all or the whole house of Israel shal be saved and proves it by that which is written in Esa 59.20 which is That the Redeemer shall come to Sion and to them which turn from transgression in Jacob saith the Lord As for me this is my Covenant with them saith the Lord my spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed saith the Lord from henceforth and for ever Hence it is evident by Saint Paul's exposition that the great deliverance blessing and mercy intended and meant in this text properly belongeth unto Jacob or natural children of Israel whence it will follow That the great exaltation permanent glory security and peace prophesied and spoken of in the chapter immediately following appertains to them also none whereof being fulfilled when Saint Paul wrote that Epistle nor at any time since it is all yet to be fulfilled to them And therefore whosoever expounds this Scripture otherwise thwarts Saint Paul to the deceiving both of themselves and others which is much and often done by such as turn the true and plain sense of this and other Scriptures into mystical or allegorical meanings the meer inventions of mens brains whereby many excellent passages of Scripture yea in effect the whole Scripture hath been and is perverted and made not helpful but hurtful to many which if rightly understood would be of excellent use and benefit to all men but by such and the like misinterpretations and blind senses put upon the Scriptures by our blinde guides and * And have we not seen Curse ye Meroz displayed nor heard them cursed bitterly who came not out to help the Lord nor yet known many honest and sincere hearts extreamly cheated on all sides and by none more then by such charms and charmers who though they knew little of the right application of that text yet it bearing a sound for their purpose it was made use of by them meerly upon design interest for no sooner did they perceive the waters begin to run besides their Mill i.e. their ambitions covetous domineering ends were not served but they turned cat in paâ— cursed as fast the contrary way this at pleasure upon occasion can they do viz. bless curse curse and bless one the same person one and the same cause one and the same opinion with one and the same mouth and possible from one the same text corrupt interessed men as it may seem the honest zeal and good meaning of these men I speak as charity bindes me hath been so much misled as to conceive themselves divinely authorized to make this rash and un-advised attempt so dangerous both to themselves and the whole Nation But if instead thereof they had imployed all the power interest they had in a lawful way upon a civil account to have procured for the honest and good people of the Nations the performance of such honest and righteous things as of right do belong unto them and are but the just return of all the blood treasure laid out and spent by them for the purchase or rather for the redemption of them and which have been so much and so often promised to them and that upon most-solemn sacred appeals to heaven and yet hitherto most unjustly * But we be to them and him by whom these offences come deteined from them I conceive they had been far less if at all blamable then in that which they have attempted For can they think it just for them to domineer over their fellows and brethren meerly by a supposed divine authority from Scripture and may not any other upon the same account by a contrary exposition put upon the Scripture challenge the like superiority over them and must not we then needs fight it out and after conclude the strongest to have expounded truest for the weakest must to the wall perhaps into some castle or prison or into the bottome of some dungeon as erroneous or heretical persons whilst all such as have but the power over castles and prisons are alwayes orthodox all the world over and who may say to the contrary Or can they think it reasonable or feasable for them to set up that Kingdome of Christ to prevent and save him the labour of coming and so to rob him of the glory of doing it himself by the mighty power of his own arm without the arm of flesh Esa 63.1 to 7 whereby he will exalt his great name and glory to all eternity more then by any of his former archievements The bringing the children of Israel thorow the red Sea out of the hands of Pharaoh was indeed a very wonderful and glorious work whereby God made his Name great in all the earth yet this his deliverance and restoring of them yet to come and his setting up of his Kingdome will so far and so much exceed that