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virtue_n	death_n	know_v	resurrection_n	1,580	5	9.6777	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85887	A treatise of prayer and of divine providence as relating to it. With an application of the general doctrine thereof unto the present time, and state of things in the land, so far as prayer is concerned in them. Written for the instruction, admonition, and comfort of those that give themselves unto prayer, and stand in need of it in the said respects. By Edvvard Gee, minister of the gospel at Eccleston in Lancashire.	Gee, Edward, 1613-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing G451; Thomason E1430_1; ESTC R209520	284,427	526

Moses ere those things were effected much time passed many stops occurred and Israel was many times out of hope of attaining them both in Egypt and in the Wilderness Nevertheless as the Lord audibly told Moses out of the bush that he was now come down to accomplish those things so his appearance in that manner to wit in a bush burning with fire yet unconsumed visibly told him if I may so speak the reason of all those delays and difficulties and the equivalent recompence or rather the advantage afforded them for and by the same Whilest the Lord was bringing them up like a vine out of Egypt to transplant them in Canaan they were like that bush all on a flame by reason of the afflictions and oppositions meeting with them from first to last in their way and their danger of perishing thereby yet they came through and survived them all by which means the presence and power of God in and for them was the more put forth and evidenced they had the light and lustre of that fire but escaped the devouring heat of it God shewing himself the more apparently with them and in their conservation As a Commentary or Paraphrase upon that Emblem of the burned unburned Bush we may take that of the Apostle spoken of himself and his fellow-laborers in the Ministry We are troubled yet not distressed we are perplexed but not in despair persecuted 2 Cor. 4.8 c. but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Iesus How and wherefore is all this That the life also of Iesus might be manifest in our body for we which live are always delivered unto death for Iesus sake that the life also of Iesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh Here are a heap of expressions of sufferings and straits troubled on every side perplexed c. but each of these hath its stop allay and correction here are many plunges over head as if they were quite drown'd and lost but here are as many recoveries and fetchings up again But observe what 's the efficient cause of these their recoveries and what 's the final cause or end of their delivery up to such depressions and deadly hazards and of their holding out and safe coming off The efficient cause of their recoveries is the life of Iesus that it is that still brings them back and raiseth them up again when they are welnigh gone and the final cause both of their relinquishment to those dejections and perils and of their safe enduring and coming off from them is that the life of Iesus might be made manifest in them they are in deaths oft they dye dayly they are pressed out of measure above strength even to despair of life and have the sentence or answer of death in themselves as the Apostle elsewhere saith * 2 Cor. 11 23. 1 Cor. 15.31 2 Cor. 1.8 9 and wherefore all this but that they may have so many resurrections from death and those as eminent and as dayly reiterated and that the power vertue or life of Christ might be so much the oftner and the more conspicuously put forth in those resurrections With good congruity therefore doth Beza understand what follows vers 14. of the civil and analogical resurrections where he saith Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Iesus shall raise up us also by Iesus and shall present us with you 2. It may be for the Lords more illustrious appearing afterward or in the issue and upshot of the delay The greater deferrings and the stranger crossings there be of prayer while they are in putting up and prosecuting the more glorious may the appearing of God be in the end when they come to be answered What the Apostle saith to Philemon of his new converted servant Onesimus For perhaps he therefore departed for a season that thou shouldst receive him for ever Philem 15 16 not now as a servant but above a servant a brother beloved the like may be said of God in reference unto this case he may hide himself for a time that he may be the more seen and the more welcom and the more comfortably and constantly enjoyed when he doth manifest himself David tells us He waited patiently or he waited long for the Lord Psa 40.1 c. and then he inclined unto him and heard him he brought him up also out of an horrible pit out of the miry clay and set his feet upon a rock and established his goings This appearing of God after so long waiting when he was sunk so low and dangerously raised up Davids thankfulness unto God and admiration of him very high He hath put a new song in my mouth even praise unto our God Many O Lord my God are thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are to us-ward they cannot be reckoned in order unto thee Upon this so earnestly sought so long expected so extreamly needed and now so admirably effected a deliverance God is very much exalted and dignified in Davids eyes his praise is now set forth not by an ordinary but by a new song in his mouth he is now rapt up into a wonderment at the works and contrivances of God and he sees an inexplicable multiplicity of marvels in them The Penman of Psalm 102. in the midst of all the sadness and solitariness he is in in Sions behalf foresees yet that the Lord will regard the destitute and not despise their prayer He will look down from the height of his Sanctuary and from Heaven he will behold the Earth to hear the groaning of the prisoner Psal 102.15 c. to loose those that are appointed to death And when thus it shall be he foretells what will be the consequent of it in reference to God to wit high and general and lasting advancement of his Name Glory and Praise So the Heathen shall fear the Name of the Lord and all the Kings of the Earth thy Glory When the Lord shall build up Sion he shall appear in his glory This shall be written for the generation to come and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. There is a like remarkable place in Isaiah setting forth both unto what extremity the Lord sometimes deferreth his craving people and whereto it tendeth When the poor and needy seek water Isai 41 17 c. and there is none and their tongue faileth for thirst I the Lord will hear them I the God of Israel will not forsake them Unto this extent of delay the Lord may put off his servants prayers even till they be as a people that have all their pools and springs quite dryed up so that they cannot find a drop of water to cool their thirst and till their tongue be tyred and spent with drought and importunity of asking yet he hears them at length and then he hears them to the purpose I will open rivers in high