A Discourse Grounded on Proverbs, Part 2 · Section 24
Sect. XXIV.
TO have High, Holy,omnipoten… and Reverend Thoughts of Gods OMNIPOTENCE as well as Omnipreſence, and Omniſci…nce, Job 42, …He fils all things, and knows …ll things, and ſaith Iob, I know, … Lord, that thou canſt do every …hing, and that no thought can be …itholden from thee; or, (as it is …ad in the Margin) no thought of thine can be hindred; mine canno… be hid, thine cannot be hindred Seeing now, ſaith God, that I even I am he, and there is no Go… with me: Deut. 32, 39I kill, and I make alive I wound, and I heal: neither … there any that can deliver out of min… hand, (and thinks the Believin… Soul further, neither is there an… that can hinder thy hand from del… vering. Iſai 43, 10 11, 13) Ye are my Witneſses, I, eve… I, am the Lord, and beſides me the… is no Saviour, Yea before the day w… I am he, and there is none that c… deliver out of my hand: I will … and who ſhall lett it? He, and H… onelyonly hath power after the body … killed, to caſt the Body and Soul i… hell, therefore we ſhould fear hi… He alſo,Num He onelyonly ſpeaks in Righ… ouſneſs, mighty to ſave, and the… fore we ſhould truſt in him. S… would hinder, the great guilt Sin, but ſaith Faith, let the p… of my Lord be great in pardon ſin, Sin would hinder, the Dominion and prevailing power of ſin; and O thinks the Soul; 'tis impoſſible I ſhould ever be rid of ſuch ſtrong Luſts, that my proud heart ſhould be made humble, my froward heart be made patient and meek, my filthy heart made clean, my worldly heart made H…a…enly; but thinks Faith▪ what things are impoſsible with men, Mat. 10, 26…re poſsible with God, Rom. 6, 14who hath …aid th…t Sin ſhall not have Dominion over us, and that He ſubdueth our S…ns under us, Micah 7, 19 Jer. 32, 14who hath great power, and a stretch…d out Arm, and t…ere is nothing too hard for him, Amos 5, 12…o not an hard heart; In one word, it thinks Sin Mightie, but God Almighty; Satan,Gen. 17, 1 a Prin…ipalitie and a Pow…r, Epheſ. 6, 2…but the God …f Peace able to bruiſe Satan under …e weak feet of the Saints, Rom 16, 20and to …o it ſhortly; Antichriſt Rampant, …he Woman upon the ſcarlet BeaſtRevel 23, 3 Triumphant, and 17:6eſpecially when All the World is wondring after the Beaſt, yea the Saints wondring, though with abhorrencie; and yet even then He thinks that in one hour he ſhall utterly fall, Revel. 18, 8and be deſtroyed Everlaſtingly, becauſe ſtrong is the Lord GOD that judgeth her. He hath choſen the weak things of the World to confoun… the Mightie,1 Cor, 1, 26 He calleth the things that are not, as though they were; can make a Worm to threſh the Mountains, Iſaia. 41, 14is able of stones to raiſe up Children to Abraham,Mat. 15 39 Ezek. 37, 3 to make dry bones live, dead witneſſes revive; Rev. 11, 11yea for this cauſe uſually ſuffers a ſentence of Death, 1 Cor. 2:9and ſo will he recover and make to live: for as the fooliſhneſs of God is wiſer then men, Iſaia. 38, 16ſo the weakneſs of God ſtronger then Men; 1 Cor. 1, 25He can do what he will do, and by what means he will do, He can ſend a noiſe and trouble, and a word and heal; … Kin: 19:7Stars in their courſes to fight against Siſera,2 Kin. 19 7 Pſa 107, 20 and th… dust of the Earth to Plague Pharaoh; Th… Hornet to chaſe the Amorite, Joſh. 24.12.and Raven to feed the P opheth; 1 Ki. 17, 4 6can dry up the Sea, and make a path for his pe ple, 1 Co 10 1, 4and ſtrike the Rock into a River, and make it both flow for …hem, and follow after them;2 Pet. 2 16 He c…n reprove a Prophets madneſs by …n Aſſes mouth; 1 Cor. … 22and by the fooliſhneſs of Preaching convert a ſinner, …nd ſave a Soul; He can ſilence …he Oracles by the crying of an Hebrew Child in a Manger;ceſſant Orac…ia d… …hi… Pſalm 8▪ 2 and …ut of the mou…hs of Babes and Suck…ings ordain ſtrength to ſtill the Eue…y and Avenger; Hebr. 2…, 34out of weakneſs …e makes ſtrong, y…a to them that …ave no might he renews fl…ength; He makes the little one like Dav d,Iſaia: 40, 29 …nd David as the Angel of the Lord.
Then lift up thine eyes on high, Iſaia. 40 …O my Soul, and beh…ld wh… hath …reated all theſe, that b…ingeth out their hoſt by number, He calleth them all by their names, by the greatneſs of his might, Pſalm 8 5 …for that he …r…ng in pow r not one f…aleth. Speak thou al…, O my Soul, of the glory …f his Kingdom, and ta…k thou of his P…w…, to make he Sons of Men to know his mighty acts, Pſalm 29, 1and the glorious Majesty of h…s Kingdom. And Give unto the Lord ye mightie, give unto the Lord Glory and strength, Be w…ſe by the Wor…s that told h…m to his face,Acts 22, 23 that he was … their Brother, and ſhould i…ſtantly die like Man, whom the ſhout of the people cryed up for a God; and learn (O thou Man of Sin) who oppoſeſt and exaltest thy ſelf above all that is called God, … Th. 2.3, 4…r that is worſhiped, ſo that thou ſittest in the Temple of God, ſhewing thy ſelf that thou art God, Even learn in him that was once in the Chair,…ala… …, 18 that there needs but Gods hiſsing for a fl…e to ſtop thy mouth of Blaſphemies. B…hold he tak…s away, who can hinder him? Job 9 4who will ſay unto h m what doſt thou? He is wiſe in heart and mighty in strength; Verſe 12 13And if God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do ſt…op under him. But alas, Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? Pſal 106, 2who can ſh…w f…rth all his praiſe? Indeed Great is the Lord, and greatly to be feared, Pſal. 145▪ 3but his greatneſs is unſearchab…. Go on, O my Soul, to admire what thou canſt not utter; and think this at leaſt of what God is able to do,Epheſ. 3:… that he is able to do above that thou canſt think.