Royalty THough the Lord shares so liberally with man that of all his Creatures he reserved but the least part to himselfe yet in most things he will have us to acknowledge him for our cheif Lord and of every thing to pay him something as his chief rent and royalty As of our time the seventh day of the trees of Paradise the tree of knowledge of good and evill of all our increase the tenth of our generation the first born of our Corn the first fruits of his people Israel the tribe of Levi of all Cities Jerusalem of all mountaines Mount Sion of all the sons of Ishai little David of all women the blessed Virgin and of all the members of our bodies the heart Spark 52. O King of Glory how liberall doest thou deale with us and how niggard are we in repaying thee For how many a thousand thoughts have we conceived and not one of them in remembrance of thy goodness How many thousand words have we spoke and not one of them to the praise of thy name How many thousand deeds have we done and not one of them for the setting-forth of thy glory Good Lord as thou hast given me all things saving thy glory so for thy glory give me of thy grace that I may acknowledge thee Let my heart be alwayes inditing of a good matter that my tongue may be the pen of a ready writer Psal 45 and my hand diligent in well doing and open unto the needy through Jesus Christ Prov. 12.30 Amen Sect. LIII The earthly Planet AS the Bridegroom the bright Son of happiness and Lord of life is often compared to the Sun of heaven so his Spouse the Church doth often resemble the Moon For as the Moon hath all her light from the Sun so the Church from Christ And as the shadow of the earth doth somtimes hinder and Eclipse the Moon that she cannot shew the light of the Sun the which she received so our sins like earthly shadows do hinder and debar us oftentimes from giving thanks and glory to God for what we received and to shew the same to others giving him the glory from whom they proceed But as that good Planet the sun faileth not to give light continually unto the body of the Moon and to all inferiour bodies though sometimes it seems to be eclipsed in regard of us so the glorious Sun of Righteousness doth never fail to give light unto his Church and his Elect here on earth though by reason of the black cloud of our sins he seems sometimes for a while to be absent from us And as the Moon will not utterly fail by any Eclipse that can happen though to our sight is be almost quite darkened so the Church of God can never faile nor fall clean away but shall ever be a Church world without end being grounded upon a sure Rock Jesus Christ being the chief corner Stone Spark 53. O most glorious Sun of Righteousnes and the bright day-Star of grace and glory vouchsafe we beseech thee to lighten our darknesse by thy holy Spirit and to shew us the pure light of thy countenance by shining in our hearts and souls Let thy holy word be a lanthorn to our feet and a light unto our paths disperse all the black clouds of ignorance and errours that may Eclipse the light of thy holy Spirit from us be thou alwayes with us unto the end of the world and pray unto the Father for us that our Faith may not faile Marry us unto thy self for ever that though we seem sometimes to have a faile yet we may never fall finally from thee which art the way the life and light for ever Sect. LIV. The Sympathy of Christ's Passion O Sweet Saviour work in me that pitty of thy paint that the Creatures had at thy Passion For then the Sun was darkned the earth quaked the temple rented the stones cleaved and the graves opened And yet thou didst not suffer for the sun nor the earth for the graves the temple nor the stones but for us men and our salvation Shall these be amazed at the pungs and we not moved at thy pains Sparke 54 O Lord let the wounds of thy hands cause a wound in my heart The nayles of thy feet prick my conscience Thy Vineger and Gall draw tears from mine eyes Thy bloudy side cause me a bleeding Soul And thy paines cause in me sorrow and passions Sect. LV. The eyes Imperfection SOme can see a mote in their brothers eye and not so much as a beam in their own such was the Pharisee that prayed with the Publican Some again can see a mote in their brother's eye a beam in their own such was Peter when he denied Christ and wept And Paul who counted himself not worthy to be called an Apostle There be also some that espie beames both in their own eyes and in every bodies else such are they that know themselves in conscience to be bad and therefore think every body else to be so Such was Pharaoh that thought God's people to be idle because he was idle himself Some again see no mote neither in their own eyes nor in others such are blinde Atheists and loose Liberties that think that every man may do what he will Some again can see two beames in their own eyes and a beam in others such was Judas and Cain and such as see their own sin so great that they despaire of Gods mercy For though they judge others to be great sinners yet they think their own unpardonable Sparke 55. O Lord blesse me from such a sight For Lord if I offend thy Justice by transgression yet let me not offend thy mercy by disperation And yet give me grace alwayes to see the beam in mine own eye and to take it away that then I may the better see the mote in my brothers eye Sect. LVI Our Credite once Crack't c. VVE have need to have Gods Grace to guide us every minute in all our actions For we may commit in an houre such a fault as will be a blemish to us in a whole age Noab was but once drunk yet is ever spoken off David but once in Adulterer yet his fact never forgotten Adam but once tasting of an apple yet his posterity smart for it to the worlds end Lot once committing incest with his Daughters yet his fin is notorious for ever Lots wife turning but once back to Sodome yet an example for ever Peter but once fallen yet his weakness perpetually noted Sparke 56. O Lord let thy Angels guard me thy grace guide me thy word direct me and thy spirit preserve me that I neither stirre nor nor start waver nor wander out of thy path Lord keepe me as the apple of thine eye and as the fignet on thy right hand that all my thoughts may be of thy goodnesse all my words to thy praise and all my works to thy glory to whom be all glory and goodnesse
Mat. 25. O God thou seest how my sins have taken such hold f Psal 40.15 upon me that I cannot look up to thy holy place Lord break the chains of my sins and let the pitifulnesse of thy great mercy loose me from the bondage of sinne the fear of death Rom. 8.1 the misery of this wretched life from the terrour and rigour of thy law that I may believe and feele that there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Lord grant that we maybe fellow Citizens with the Saints and never look for a resting place here but let me say and sing with thy holy Prophet If I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand forget her cunning yea If I remember thee not let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem in my q Psal 1â—â— mirth Sect. VII Of the Kingdome of Heaven The Kings Palace THe place of Joy and the eternall rest of the Saints of God is described unto us in the Word of God by four speciall names above the rest whereby we may guess at the happiness therein contained namely by the name of a 2 Cor. 12. Paradise of a b John 14. House a c Heb. 12. City and a d Mat. 5. Kingdome It is called a Paradise to shew that it is as a Garden or Orchard of all sweet pleasure and delight But least we might imagine by the name of Paradise that the place of joy is but as a Garden adjoyning to a backside or a place by some corner of a house It is called a Princely House or Palace where many mansions and chambers be where besides a Garden there are also Halls Parlers Chambers Galleries Banquetting-houses and all other Lodges of pleasure but because a house though never so great cannot contain any great company or extraordinary multitude whereby we might be induced to believe that there can be but very few that can be saved for want of roome in heaven therefore the place prepared for us is also called a City which containes many Houses many Palaces many Temples many Orchards and such like places fit to contain and entertain many millions of Saints and Angels but least we should imagine that a City may be little and not spacious enough for the Sonnes of God and such as follow the Lamb therefore it is not called onely a Paradise a House or a City but a Kingdome yea the Kingdome of Heaven in comparison of which the whole earth is but as a point So that the Saints of God shall not onely be â—â— a Garden or Paradise of all delight but also in a Palace of all pleasures In a City of all good Government acquaintance and familiarity yea in a Kingdome of all Glory and Majesty where every Servant of God shall be his Sonne and every Sonne a Citizen and every Citizen a crowned King to raigne with the King of Kings for ever Sparke 7. O God seeing there is with thee such a Paradise of pleasure q Psal 84.1 grant that I may not love this earth nor the vain delights therein and seeing thy House and Palace hath so many roomâ— and mansions f John 14 â— let me not delight too much in building houses here upon earth as if I meant to stay here for ever r Psal 49 11. but with the Patriarchs m Heb. 11 10. Prophets and Apostles be content with such tents and mansions as may best put me in mind of thy dwelling And seeing that holy and heavenly Jerusalem is so great and glorious d Psal 84.1 let not me look here g Heb. 11.9 for any abiding City nor greedily gape for the Kingdome and preferments of the world seeing such a Kingdome is prepared for me that is like a well governed City a strong Palace or a Paradice of pleasure But when I walk in my garden let me desire thy Paradise when I sit in my house let me think of thy Palace when I tread in the town let me remember thy holy City and when I see the glory of the world and this earthly Kingdome let me seek thy Kingdome and the righteousness thereof Mat. 5. through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. VIII We must serve God in our prime and best time IT is a rule most certain in Reason and Divinity Abell's Oblation That man ought to yeeld his love and service to God as Creatures do give their love and service unto us who by the Ordinance of God do yeeld us both love and service in the best fashion or else man would not accept it And therefore the trees do not onely give their fruit willingly but such fruits as are seasonable sweet and delectable otherwise if they were bitter rotten and unpleasant we would not care for them For we ought to give our love and service to God when it is seasonable sweet and pleasant or else God will not accept of it Sparke 8. O gracious God as thou hast made me in the best fashion p Gen. 1. Psal â— Col. 3. more excellent than all other Creatures thy holy Angells excepted So grant I may yeeld the sweeter love more pleasant service than they by how much my Creation excelleth theirs Let me not bear leaves q Mat â—1 Mark 11. but fruits and those fruits which are most sweet and pleasant in thy sight Let my prayer be fervent r 1 Cor. 14. my zeal burning a Psal 69. and 119. 2 Kings 10. my faith unfained b Mat. 9. 1 Tim. 1. my fear filiall d Psal 86. my obedience child-like e Luke 2. my almes cherefull without ostentation and my whole life a pattern f Mat. 5 1â— for my posterity through that true pattern of all purity Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. IX Our love to God Sorrow's Antidote or Salve AS sorrowfulnesse is the death of the body and the grief of the soul so joy is the life of both For where there is no joy there is no life and where there is all sadness there is nothing but death For as the Soul's life consisteth in joy so the death thereof in sorrow So that he which hath true joy hath life but he which loveth his God in heart unfainedly hath true joy And seeing this joy doth arise from the love of God onely and from none other therefore it followeth that to have all our love all our good all our content and all our delight yea and all of life is to have the love of God And seeing the love of God I mean our love to God is within man that is in his will heart and affection it followeth therefore that to seek all our love all our life and all out contentment we need not to go out of our selves Spark 9. O gracious God teach me to have this treasure within me namely to love thee with all my heart d Deut. 6. with all
kinde of Masters Choice of Masters to wit his Enemy his Equall and his Servant He which serveth the Devill serveth his Enemy He which serveth his Flesh serveth his Equall And he which serveth the World serveth his Servant Therfore of all service it is the basest service to serve the world because such a one like Cham shall be but the servant of servants and to serve the Devill is but an unthankfull office for such one is sure to have no better payment than death for his stipend And for to serve the flesh it is but to seek to please a chollerick brittle and unconstant master Therefore to serve God is the best service for he is the b st master For if we be poor he onely can enrich us If we be sick he is the best Physitian If we be wronged he can right us If we be weak he is most strong If ignorant he can best instruct us And if discontented he onely can please and prefer us Sparke 48. O Dear Father make us to be of thy hired servants Luk. 15. let us desire to be rather door-keepers in thy house than to remain in the pleasant Palaces of Princes Psal 84. Good Lord thou hast taught us that no man can serve two masters but either he shall hate the one and love the other or cleave to the one and leave the other Therefore Lord let our choyce be with thy Disciples to forsake all and follow thee Josh 22.5 And grant we may serve thee with all our heart and with all our soul through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. XLIX God the Teacher of true Wisedom onely O Lord I am ignorant and want instructions in true wisedom The Well of Wisdome To whom shall I repair to learn it shall I go to the world Alas no for all the world lieth in Wickedness Shall I go to the flesh That be far from me for the flesh doteth and lusteth against the spirit Shall I go to the Devill God forbid For he is a Liar a Tempter and a Seducer of the Brethren To whom then shall I go To mortal men Alas no for all men are liars the children of men are set on fire their teeth are spears and arrowes and their tongue a sharp sword there is none that understandeth and seeketh after God To whom then shall I go to learn wisdom Shal I go to the Law of Moses No neither For the Law it self is but a School-Master to bring us to Christ Shall I go to the Angels for true wisedom I must not do so for they themselves learn of Christ and adore him Shall I come to the Lord without Christ No that must I never do For it is a horrible thing to think of thee without thy sonne Christ to whom therefore shall I go but unto thee my blessed Saviour which hast the word of wisedom and eternal life Thou art a King to rule me a Priest to pray for me and a Prophet to teach and instruct me Joh. 6. Sparke 49. O God the fountain of wisedom and knowledge give me understanding and I shall live for through thee I shall be wiser than the aged and have more understanding than my teachers Psal 90. 143. Teach me therefore good Lord in thy Statutes and to do the thing which pleaseth thee and for the first lesson learne me the fear which is the beginning of wisedom through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. L. The least sin deserves death The Devills Diminutive O Good Lord I see that the World is grown to that passe that men make not so much account of small fins as of old shots A mote in the sun is but a small thing and yet enough to hinder the fight to pain the eye and to trouble the whole body A haire but a small thing and yet enough to choke the strongest man The Flies of Egypt were but little things yet none of the least plagues yea the lice were lesse than the flies and yet one of the greatest plagues that came into Egypt Like unto these be our sins which we call little sins or the men of this world call veniall and to be washed with their holy waters but how little account soever the world makes of them now the time will come when we shall wish we had never offended in the least diminutive evill For what smaller offence in our sight than a thought of pride yet the Angells were punished in everlasting chaines for it What lesser fault than to bite of an apple yet Adam and Eve when there were no more men in the world were banished Paradise for it and made to everlasting misery without Christ's mercy Lot's wife for once looking back a small offence one would think was turned into a fearfull Monument for all posterity to look upon Sparke 50. O dear Father seeing thou art most pure and so pure that the stars of heaven are not clean in thy sight Job 25. cleanse us from our secret sins Psal 19.12 51. let us think no sin a smal offence that offendeth thee which art infinite For we are no sooner born but become forlorne creatures without thy great mercy and no sooner conceived but damned if thou dealest in the rigour of Justice with us Therefore enter not into judgement with us thy servants for no flesh is righteous in thy sight but spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever Sect. LI. The shadowes of sin IT is strange to think that so many things should point out unto us the cursed nature of sin and yet we cannot avoid it It is like to leaven a little whereof will sower the whole lump of dough It is like fire a sparke whereof is able to burne a whole City It is that Jewish Leprosie that infected every thing that came nigh unto it It is like a tetter or a ringworm which though it have but a small beginning yet being not stopped will run over the whole body It is like that dead sea that killeth all that swimmeth in it Or like the quick-sands which suddenly let a man sink over head and ears if he stand still in it never so little It is like Jezabell that painted Harlot whose very skull of the head with the palmes of the hands must be buried lest they infect the very ayr Sparke 51. O dear Father if all thy creatures be not able to shew us the ugliness and deformity of this foule monster and to make us loath it grant that we may have a dayly recourse unto thy law Rom. 7. the glasse whereof will plainly shew unto us both the name and nature propertie and proportion of this hellish leprosie and so seeing it we may be sorry and being sorry may loath it and loathing it may avoid it and so come the nerer unto thee in perfection through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. LII The Lords
Holy Ghost according to his own will Sparke 43. O Holy Father I believe help my unbelief though an Angell from Heaven should teach preach contrary to that which thou by thy holy Prophets Apostles hast taught let me not believe him but hold him accursed Let me never doubt of the verity of the Scripture because it is thy word For as thou hast commanded us not to believe every spirit 2 Ioh. 4. so are we forbidden to doubt of that Truth which proceeds from the spirit of Truth Which cannot deceive nor dissemble Let us therefore never gain-say what thou dost affirm never doubt what thou dost promise never mistrust what thou hast spoken nor call into question what thou hast verified Sect. XLIV How to purchase Heaven LOrd A great purchase thou hast taught us that there be four kindes of men which by foure kind of meanes come to Heaven For some buy it at a rate at it were and bestow all their temporall goods for the better compassing thereof Some catch it by violence and they forsake Father and Mother land and living trade and traffick and all that they have for the possession of it Some steal it and do their good deeds secretly and they are rewarded openly And some are enforced to take it and by continuall affliction made to fall to a liking thereof Spark 44. O dear Saviour thy Kingdome is such a Pearle that all I have cannot buy it For I have nothing to give thee but that which came from thee and is thine own Therefore teach me to obtain thy Kingdom by what means thou wilt so that I may enjoy It. Let not my care be for the things of this world but give me grace first to care for that one thing necessary namely the seeking of thy Kingdome and the righteousness thereof and all temporall blessings shall be added thereto through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. 45. God in his Glory will be All in All to his Elect. IF we consider the right use of a Temple An End of man's Ministry we shall easily perceive the reason why John having seen the Order and Ornaments of the heavenly Jerusalem saw no Temple therein For Temples here on earth had by the Lord's Commandements but five uses or ends First To offer Sacrifices for sins and burnt offerings as in the time of the Law Secondly to preach the Word as in the time of the Gospell Thirdly To administer the holy Sacraments Fourthly To offer prayers and supplications unto Gdo And Lastly To laud and praise his holy name with Thanksgiving hymnes and spirituall songs But in Heaven there needs no sacrifices for there are no sins committed no preaching of the Word for the word incarnate will manifestly speake unto all men face to face according to the Prophet Jeremiah Ierem. 31. The use of the Sacraments likewise have an end which being but signes and seales of true things themselves serve no longer seeing the things signified by them are perfectly seen and enjoyed And as for Prayers and Praises to God there needs no Temple erected in Heaven to performe them for they shall see God as he is seen openly face to face and he shall be easily heard of all men for he himself will be their Church Temple and House of Devotion Sparke 45 O Gracious Father build the Kingdom of grace here upon earth and hasten the Kingdome of Glory Let us visit thy holy Temple often here upon earth to worship thy name that at last thou mayst bring us to that place that needs no Temple to Jerusalem than is above that is the free Mother of us all where thou art our Temple for ever Let us dwell in thee by faith and love while we are on earth that hereafter we may by an inward reverence and humility be so neerly joyned unto thee that thou mayest be our Temple to sing Hal-le-lu-jah to thy name for ever through Jesus Christ Amen Sect. XLVI Of God's Fore-warnings ALthough the sword of our God is ever ready drawn and burnished Gods Covenant to his people his bow bent his arrowes prepared his Instruments of death made ready his cup mingled yet he seldome powreth down his plagues but a shower of mercy goeth before them to make us the more heedy before his wrath be kindld to consume in 's sore displeasure for peace be to this house was so indeed to every house where th' Apostles entred but if that house was not worthy of peace then war followed and their peace returned back unto them Vertues were wrought at Chorazin and Bethsaida before the woe took hold upon them Noah was sent to the old World Messengers to the Hirers of the Vineyard Moses and Aron to the Aegyptians Prophets from time to time to the Children of Israel John Baptist and Christ and the Apostles together with signes in the host of heaven and tokens in the Elements to Jerusalem before it was destroyed Yea many signs of warning foretold us before that fearfull and finall day of Judgement as the Preaching of the Gospell to all Nations the revealing of Antichrist a departing from the faith corruption in manners great tribulations a deadly security and the conversion of the Jewes which is the last signe and warning we must expect for saving the signe of the Son of man Sparke 46. O Dear Father let thy pitty prevent my punishments and the greatness of thy mercy supply the grievousness of my misery for thou Lord wilt not the death of a sinner but rather he should convert and live Therefore let me know that my salvation is neerer than when I believed Let me not despise the riches of thy bountifulness and patience and long suffering but let me know that thy bountifulness leadeth me to repentance through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom 2.4 Amen Sect. XLVII The Titles of the Damned IF we observe the Scripture Satans bag we shall find that the Devill hath no name given him which the wicked are not branded with For he is called a Lyar so are they He if called a Tempter and they are called Tempters He is called an Enemy and they are called Enemies He is called a Murtherer and they are called Murtherers He is called a Slanderer and they are called Slanderers He is called a Viper and they are called Vipers Thus God will'd that they which should be damned should bear the name of him that is damned Spark 47. O Lord Jesus grant me grace to differ from the damned in nature as the godly do in name Lord do thou give me of thy hid Manna to eat and a white stone and in that stone a new name written which no man knoweth but he that hath it Grant this O Father for our dear Saviour's sake who hath a name above all names to whom all things shall bow in heaven in earth and under earth Amen Sect. XLVIII God is the best Master IT is counted meer folly for any man to serve three
Sparke 99. O dear Father that art one God true and constant in all thy wayes and unchangeable yea a jealous God and a consuming fire grant that I may be true and constant in all my wayes not having a shew of godliness and denying the power thereof let me not become half a christian like Agrippa but grant unto me the love of thy servant John the heart and constancy of David the zeal of Phineas the boldnesse of Peter the resolution of Paul the patience of Job the perseverance of Joseph the courage of Joshua the earnestness of Moses and the constancy and integrity of my Saviour That so I may run the way of thy commandments and count it my meat and drink to do thy will Good Lord make me every day more fervent of thy glory more faithfull in thy service more fearfull of thy judgements and more sorrowful for my sins through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. C. The death of his Saints is dear in the Lords sight IT is not without great reason that murther is so hatefull unto God that the bloud of the slain crieth in his ears for revenge For if we respect the majesty of Goh himself what can be more odious to him than to see his own image defaced in his own presence or what can be more contemptuous than to kill one in his view which he loved so dear that he gave his onely son to dy for him Nay what more wicked than willfully to deprive him of life of whose life and safety God was so carefull that he numbred the haires of his head least one of them should perish Sparke 100. O Lord keep mee from bloud thirsty men give me grace to love thy image for thy sake and not to destroy that which thy hands have made and for whom thy son died Sect. CI. The beastly Man IT was not for nothing that the Poets did faine men to be transformed into the shape of some beasts for indeed we are worse in some things than beasts The drunkard is more filthy than the swine the murtherer more cruell than the tiger the wordling more subtile than the Serpent the cholerick more angry than the Wasp the covetous more greedy than the Wolf the adulterer more leacherous than the Goat Yea many beasts have exceeded us in vertue but we exceed all in vice Sparke 101. O Lord renew thy image in us and repaire our defects let us not any more with the Swine wallow in the mire of our filthiness Instruct thou us Lord and let us not be like horse and mule that have no understanding but keep us in thy wayes that we walk in thy wisedom through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. CII The Foolish Worldling and the wise Christian BOth will yield honour to man but diversely the one honoureth him that hath the richest garment and other externall ornaments glorious to the eye the other honours him most who is richly adorned within with wisedom and good qualities For as the world respects the outward man so do the chil of the world And as God respects the inward man so do the children of God For if a man be vain outwardly he is like unto the world and therefore the worldlings will honour him but if he be good inwardly he is like God and therefore the godly will reverence him Spark 102. O Lord grant I may give tribute to whom tribute honour to whom honour worship to whom worship and fear to whom fear is due through Jesus Christ Amen Sect. CIII Faith's feeding Some Creatures by the providence of God are said to live in the air as the Chamaeleon some in the water as Fishes c. some in the earth as Wants and Wormes c. some in the fire as Salamanders c but hope is such a creature that is not tied to any one Element but hath free liberty to comfort and refresh her self upon all these As first upon the aire and light of heaven For how can we see the sun and the rest of those glorious Planets to set and rise every day and not be confirmed in our hope of our own resurrection Secondly upon the fire which we see covered and buried at night in the ashes like our bodies in the dust and in the morning to be kindled with a little dry straw which may assure us that â—hough now the dust doth cover our bodies as it were for a night yet the joyfull morning of our resurrection will come when our bodies shall be quickened and lightened again with the candle of our soul through the power of our Saviour and the fiery force of the holy spirit that we may shine as bright lamps in his house for ever Thirdly is not our hope much sustained by the water which now we see to decrease and ebbe within few hours after to flow and fill again all those empty chinkes and channels which of late were dried up and so to revive them with a new floud and fresh current and shall not those empty veynes of our bodies and those holy arteries of our flesh at the spring-tide of the resurrection by the powerfull blowing of the Southern wind of Gods spirit be filled again with bloud and the spirit of life Fourthly shall we observe the earth to bring forth all things committed unto her and not hope without doubt that she will one day likewise deliver up our bodies committed to their trust and that much more glorious than she doth any corne or seeds which she keep but for lesse than a year Let us not think it therefore unlikely for our vile bodies to be made glorious seeing that fine paper is made of foul rags and pure glasse of the ashes of ferne yea of a heap of dry bones faire and stronge bodies and life given unto them with a blast of winde Ezek. 37 For could God create all things of nothing and can he not work his own will in his own creatures could he fetch light out of darkness as it were out of a grave can he in the womb of a woman of a little bloud frame a body distinguished with so many and sundry instruments as that it may go for a little world and within the space of some few dayes add lifâ— unto it And can he not restore the body that hath been so to what it was Can he quicken us in the womb of our mother and can he not receive us in the womb of the earth Can we fetch fire out of the flint and cannot he fetch us out of the earth 1 King 17.23 2 King 4 32 Acts 9.40 23.10 Could Eliah and Elisha raise the widow of Zareptha the Shunamites children Could Peter raise Tabitha and Paul Eutychus and cannot God their Lord and ours raise both them and us Sparke 103. O dear Father 1 Pet. 1. which by thy great mercy hast regenerated us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Chrst from the dead 1 Tim. 3. Rom.