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A00746	The calling of the Ievves A present to Iudah and the children of Israel that ioyned with him, and to Ioseph (the valiant tribe of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel that ioyned with him. The Lord giue them grace, that they may returne and seeke Iehovah their God, and Dauid their King, in these latter dayes. There is prefixed an epistle vnto them, written for their sake in the Hebrue tongue, and translated into English. Published by William Gouge, B. of D. and preacher of Gods word in Blackefryers. London.	Finch, Henry, Sir, d. 1625.; Gouge, William, 1578-1653.	1621 (1621)	STC 10874; ESTC S102095	158,276	326

promises and to leaue his deere and faithfull children to the rage of their oppressors 8. Yea in the path of thy iudgements ô Iehovah did wee waite for thee to thy name and to the memoriall of thee was the desire of our soule 9. With my soule haue I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me haue I sought thee early for when as thy iudgements are in the earth the inhabitants of the world doe learne righteousnes 10. Let fauour be shewed to the wicked he will not learne righteousnes in the land of all equitie he will doe wickedly and will not see the excellencie of Iehovah 11. O Iehovah when thy hand is lifted vp they will not behold they shall behold and blush for the zeale toward the people yea the fire shall consume those very enemies of thine EXPOSITION THE third part of the Hymne is the Churches confession or profession rather made to God what hath beene the cariage of the godly ones the poore remnant that waite for the promise of their restoring all the while Gods hand lay so heauy on them which is the state and condition of the Iewes at this present in the midst of their great calamitie and affliction First is their patient depending vpon God and trust in him The props of which their trust in God are his name that is to say the meditation of his truth iustice power and the memorie of him in the meditation of his word and workes and other holy exercises Psal 111. 4. This meditation is set forth doubly by the earnestnesse and the continuance of it The earnestnesse in two words soule and spirit the continuance in two other night and morning comprehending the whole day long See Psalm 63. 2. The second thing they professe is their profiting by afflictions in righteousnesse and true holinesse For affliction indeed is a bitter root but it bringeth forth most sweet fruit the fruit of righteousnesse to them that are exercised thereby Heb. 12. 11. By the inhabitants of the world I take Gods children specially to be meant because of the opposition following to wit The contrary carriage of the wicked vngodly whom no rods can tame no chastisement or correction though neuer so iust and equall yea mercifull and gracious bring to their right sences to see and acknowlede the excellent and mighty worke of God for the wicked are neuer a whit the better for all Gods dealings His milde and gentle courses doe not mollifie but conuince them But yet mauger their head they shall be driuen both to see and to acknowledge to their shame the great and mightie hand of God his zeale for his people and the fire of his wrath to consume his foes Obseruations 8. In the path Chastisements and afflictions are the path which Gods children are to walke in You know saith the Apostle 1. Thes 3. that we were ordained hereunto And againe through the midst of affliction wee must make our way vnto Gods Kingdome Act. 14. The passage of Gods children is through straight and difficult places and the lines that leade to the center of our rest are directly drawn from the circumference of troubles and distresses Christ the circle of our happinesse did paue that way to heauen and was faine himselfe with his owne feet to tread it before hee could enter into his glory Thy iudgements When God doth chastise vs we are to consider that he sitteth in his throne of iudgement Hee that is the righteous Iudge Psalm 10. the Iudge of all the world that cannot but doe iustice Gen. 18. 25. which must make vs to subscribe to his sentence and to profit by afflictions humbling our soules before him Waite To keepe vs that wee faint not vnder this burden there is none so sure an anchor to flye vnto as the hope and expectation of Gods mercies which was the comfort Iaakob took when he beheld with the eyes of faith the promises of God in the middest of those great calamities that were to befall his posterity O Iehoua I haue waited for thy saluation Gen. 49. 18. And Dauid in the Psalmes Psal 40. 2. Waiting I haue waited for Iehoua To thy name Which that we may the better doe hee hath not left vs destitute of excellent meanes and helpes as wine and apples to refresh our sences First wee haue his name his name is himselfe and all the vertues that are in him Esay 30. 27. Behold the name of Iehouah commeth from a farre as if hee should say God whose Maiesty is most famous will then come when in iudgement of man hee seemeth to be farthest off to deliuer his and to destroy his enemies Who shall be punished saith Paul 2. Thes 1 from the presence of God that is of God himselfe present to their terrour What can bring more content then to haue him on our side And to thy memory But because not onely to flesh and bloud but in the opinion also of the faithfull carried with humane weakenesse and infirmitie hee seemeth many times to absent himselfe to hide his face from vs therefore in the second place the very memory of his name doth bring most sweet content when we call to minde the promises of his Word his former mercies the experience we haue had of his goodnesse The desire of our soule The meditation of these things must bee sweet vnto our soule No woman with childe to long more after any thing shee lusteth for then wee to long after the comforts which the consideration of the power wisedome goodnesse Iustice and mercy of God and the sweet exercises of his word doe bring vs As the Hart brayeth after the riuers of waters so doth my soule for thee O God saith the Prophet in the Psalmes Psal 84. 9. With my soule c. with my spirit Our whole soule and all our affections our memory iudgement conscience and vnderstanding must be carried with all eagernesse and be as forward in good things as the wicked are in euill who from their heart and with all their soule reioyce to commit euill Ezech. 25. 6. In the night c. I early seeke thee Yea wee must lye at these things night and day neuer to let the remembrance of them goe out of our minde It is a goodthing saith the Psalmist Psal 92. 3. to publish thy kindnesse in the morning and thy truth in the nights For when c. Great is the need we haue of these ferulaes and corrections The flesh is so strong euen in the best the worke of Gods grace so weake that his faithfull children haue need of many beatings and buffetings to tame and to subdue it Learne righteousnesse And this is the right vse wee are to make of Gods chastisements and corrections to learne thereby righteousnesse Christ himselfe by the things he suffred learnt obedience Heb. 5. 8. What need then haue we to be trained vp in this schoole and to take out that lesson which cost the

himselfe to be exalted by any thing that so poore sillie wormes of the earth are able to do And how should this whet our affections and set an edge vpon vs to performe so holy a dutie to him Thee In the manifold changes and confusions that fall out in the world we must haue our recourse to God They that haue no heart to praise God it is a token they haue neuer felt how sweet and gratious he is Iehovah thou art my God The foundation of all our prayers praises of God standeth vpon these two grounds and props his power and his will He is able to do vs all good For he is Iehovah Lord of heauen and of earth His will we can not doubt of For he is our God and Father through Christ Both these pillars we are taught to rest vpon in that holy heauenly and peerelesse prayer Our Father which art in heaven My God Here is the faith of a Christian when truly and from his heart in the sinceritie of his soule he can say with Thomas Ioh. 20. my God and my Lord appropriating to himselfe the promises of God in Christ So could not wicked Saul do who so oft saith vnto Samuel Iehovah thy God 1 Sam. 15. 21 30. as being himselfe none of his This maketh our faith differ from the faith of Diuels and from the faith of all carnall Gospellers For thou hast done The mightie and memorable acts of God deserue and are most worthy alwayes to be had in remembrance for he hath so wrought his wonderfull workes that he hath purchased a memoriall for them saith the Psalmist Psal 111. 4. They that are negligent and forgetfull make God as much as lyeth in them to loose this purchase which can neuer be Wherefore it is a thing too too intolerable though nothing be more common in the world for men to be so attentiue to their owne priuate affaires that they neuer heede the glorious acts of God which he euery day sheweth forth in the world for men to behold as in a glasse his glory in them Whereunto we are directed by our Prophet and a doore as it were and window here set open things pointed at which we must open our eyes to see For as the Apostle writeth to the Romanes Rom. 1. the invisible things of God are manifested in them His power truth wisedome iustice maiestie and mercy Wonderfull things When we see strange and marueilous things wonderfull in our eyes incredible to flesh and bloud there is the finger of God his power and his might Councels long ago When we finde the same long before many ages past prophecied and foretold as purposed from eternitie not sodainly and by chance rushed into what a prouidence and care is this ouer his Church and people what a depth of wisedome in so ordering and disposing of them Are faith trueth When his promises so long waited for and expected come in due time to be performed there is his faithfulnes and trueth To teach vs not to faint nor cast off our faith and confidence but though he linger yet to waite For comming he will come and will not defer Abacuc 2. 3. 2. For thou hast brought a Citie c. When we see mightie Nations strong and fensed Cities that lend the arme of their strength and power to the oppressing of Gods people to haue their hornes broken and to be laid euen with the ground that there remaineth not so much as a shard to fetch one cole of fire in a ruine neuer to be repaired behold a moment of his iustice 3. The mightie people the terrible nations What a God must we needs say is this of maiestie and glory that wringeth out of the mouth of the wicked and vngodly a confession of his praises and maketh the false-hearted tyrants that haue beene so awfull and terrible to his people to counterfeit a subiection and will they nill they to doe his Church seruice Esay 60. 14. 4. Thou hast beene a fense to the poore c. When the hearts of his poore distressed seruants in the middest of their heauinesse and sorrowes receiue aboundance of comfort are kept as it were in the Lyons denne and in the middest of the hot burning fornace that God is as a wall of brasse round about to gard and to defend them lo the riches of his mercie and goodnes And this maketh a high and mightie wall of difference betweene prophane worldlings and Gods children For euen they are amazed many times at the wonderfull things that God bringeth to passe in the gouernment of the world But none can indeed profit by the workes of God but such as haue their eyes opened to behold the things before remembred When the blast God is a helpe in affliction very ready to be found when all humane forces faile the diuine power is most at hand He suffereth his owne that are most deere vnto him to be iustled to the walls yea to be as an old and tottering wall readie to be ouer-turned with the blasts and violence of the wicked as the Church complaineth in the Psalmes Psal 66. 12. Thou hast made men to ride ouer our heads But in the meane time he hath the bridle and holdeth the reynes in his owne hands to curbe and keepe them in when they would go too farre passe the metes and bounds that he hath set them Then commeth his helpe as we say in the nike most sweet and comfortable as the shadow is to one that walketh and trauelleth in the heate of the day when the Sunne scorcheth most 5. Thou hast brought downe God is he that bringeth downe the rage and furie of the wicked and for all the stir and adoe they keepe stilleth and quieteth the waues of their haughtie and restles Spirits that they can doe his Church no hurt Many a time haue they afflicted me euen from my youth may Israel now say Many a time haue they afflicted me euen from my youth but could not praeuaile against me Psal 129. 1 2. Which did answer We must looke whilest we are in this world to be maliced of the wicked and vngodly They loue a life and it is meat and drinke vnto them to see Gods people buffeted and tormented as the Edomites did which the Prophet reprehendeth in them Obadia vers 12. the Church complaineth of in the Psalmes Psal 137. 7. So hath there alwaies bin in the world a perpetual trucelesse war between the seed of the woman the seed of the the serpent Kain that was of the wicked one and Abel the righteous the sonnes of God and the children of men figured in Rebecca a type of the Church in whose wombe two nations were diuided and the children rushed and dashed one against another That as within we haue a battell the spirit striuing and fighting against the flesh so without wee haue the world that rageth and maligneth vs. The reason is because our losses they take to be their owne gaine and thinke

the ministerie and preaching of the Gospell that the subiects of the King of glory may come in multitudes of their brethren the Iewes to flock euery day to the Lords Assemblies All this by an Apostrophe or turning of the speech to those doore-keepers the Lords Remembrancers Thirdly are mustered their heauenly and spirituall graces fiue in number 1. Righteousnes both imputed and renewed 2. Faith which is the hand or instrument whereby they apprehend this righteousnesse of God in Christ and make themselues true owners and possessors of it Wherein the better to expresse the measure of their faith he calleth it faiths in the plurall as Peter hath godlinesses 2 Pet. 3. 11. The same perhaps which Paul in another case expresseth by the name of all faith 1 Cor. 13. 2. 3. Constancie and perseuerance in this grace wrestling for the faith as Iude speaketh vers 3. And holding of it fast which was the Apostles reioycing 2 Tim. 4. 7. I haue kept the faith 4. The ground of all this a new birth To a frame saith he a heauenly frame one framed and fashioned from aboue that of a wilde Asse colt is made a man by spirituall regeneration as Tsophar speaketh in the booke of Iob. Iob 11. 12. Thou doest reserue c. 5. Trust and confidence with all ones heart soule and thoughts resting and relying vpon the power of God in Christ vpon his strengthning and corroborating Spirit into whose hands God hath committed all things that it is impossible any should perish that betake themselues to him For all our endeauours are able to do nothing It is God alone by whom we are garded walled in and fensed vnto saluation 1 Pet. 1. 5. The fourth remarkable thing in this part is the happinesse and felicitie which God bestoweth vpon his people thus furnished and fitted of heauenly graces peace peace all manner of good things so farre as is for their good Which first shall be most plentifull and aboundant then constant and perpetuall not reserued onely and laid vp in store but kept and preserued firme for euermore by him that is the surest and most faithfull keeper But this peace especially comprehendeth peace of conscience that passeth vnderstanding and is a continuall feast to those that haue it So doth the Prophet expresse in this place that which the Apostle writeth to the Romanes Rom. 14. 17. The kingdome of God is righteousnes and peace and ioy in the Holy Ghost Obseruations 1. In that day The time of Gods mercies ought to be the time of our thanksgiuings We are not to take day for it Song Herevnto we must stirre vp our selues by all good meanes to quicken our dulnes and to set an edge vpon our praises thanksgiuings vsing Psalmes Hymnes and spirituall Songs For the voyce and melodious tune is fit to stir vp the affections of the heart and to beget much spirituall and inward joy So shall we vse holily and aright the things that God hath giuen for the comfort and solace of our life In the land Publicke benefits are publikely and of all to be acknowledged Herewith is God well pleased when a whole Nation lifteth vp their voyce topraise God for mercy in common appertaining to them all Of Iehuda The Church onely is capable of this dutie Prophane men and worldlings like swine receiue many blessings but neuer looke vp to the hand that gaue them Of the 10 Lepers that were healed onely one returned to giue glory vnto God Luk. 17. 2. A strong The Church of God is of invincible strength and power Hell gates cannot preuaile against it To vs This is for the comfort of all the faithfull For the promises made to it extend to all the members citizens of the same And thus must we learne to apply to our owne good whatsoeuer we finde written of the Church or of those that dwell therein God hath set But this strength neither Church nor any member haue of themselues or by their owne in herent vertue All commeth from Gods grace and power onely We are weake and sillie wormes to encounter with so great and mightie foes as fight against vs on euery side It is he that doth set his fense about vs and guards our walls and bulwarks Psal 60. 14. Through God we shall doe valiantly and he treads downe our foes Saluations We neede not feare in anything For it it is not slight and small succours we haue from him Saluations all manner of health and safetie he doth minister If one helpe will not do it he is ready with an other Sathan can not haue so many meanes to foylevs as He hath meanes to keepe and hold vs vp 2. Open The preaching of the Gospell is the gate to let in Gods people into the Church and to make them Citizens of the beauenly Tsion Rom. 10. Faith commeth by hearing This gate must be vnlocked and kept wide open by the Ministers to whom God hath committed the keyes of the house of Dauid to open and to shut For they are set as vpon a watch-towre to keep out enemies that the true Citizens may come in Wherefore a continuall diligence and attendance is to be looked for of such that night and day they stand vpon their watch As that faithfull watch-man professeth of himselfe he did Esay 21. 8. How much are they to blame that neglect so holy a dutie imposed of God vpon them May enter in But as they are thus carefully to attend so it is the peoples part to lye at this doore as the multitude did at the poole of Bethesda Ioh. 5. ready to goe in with the first entrance that they finde Dauid Psal 110. 3. writing of these very times when Gods people shall be wonne to Christ sheweth what ardencie and zeale shall be in them to enter in at these gates Thy people shall flocke most willingly in the day of thy troopes in the comely places of holinesse euen from the wombe from the morning to thee shall flocke the dew of thy youth Righteous The badge and liuerie of Gods people is righteousnesse and holinesse whereby as by a coguisance men may know the Maister whom they serue for this praise belongeth to them alone And here is a true definition of the Church of God and of their liuely members Whatsoeuer faire vertues are to be seene among the worldlings it is but a glosse that quickly fadeth an outside onely that neuer taketh roote Faith For lacking faith that onely purifieth the heart Act. 15. 9. it is impossible that they should haue any sound or solide vertue The righteousnes of faith is the onely true righteousnesse In vaine doe men seeke for righteousnes where it can not be had as Pharisees and Iustitiaries doe in their owne perfections For which cause the Apostle rejecteth the Iewes in his time from being the Church of God Rom. 10. 3. Seeking to set vp their owne righteousnes they haue not beene subiect to the righteousnesse of God But when God

Sonne of God so deere 10. Let fauour c. Doe wee maruell if all this doe the wicked no good at all Why it is true in Gods Children the flesh indeed lusteth against the Spirit and is not easilie brought into subiection wherefore they also haue much need to be kept vnder But in the wicked it is farre other They had need not to be chastised and corrected but to be beaten and ground to pieces for nothing will reclaime and bring them home All Gods gracious and mercifull dealing sinketh no whit into them euen when things go as they would haue them with an euen and a faire current that they can take no exception to when they enioy most their hearts ease they cease not to offend and prouoke God vnto his face And consider not For they looke not to the hand from whom they haue all those good things esteeming it eyther chance and fortune or that their owne arme hath procured them that happinesse They thinke of any thing rather than of the true cause indeed Gods bountie and goodnesse his high and mighty outstretched arme their deliuerances to come from him hee to be the author and fountaine of all blessings 11. O Iehoua A wonderfull thing and much to be admired which causeth the Prophet to turne his speech and to make his moane to God that men should be so like buzzards blinde as Moales not to see the hand of God so high and glorious so lifred vp and exalted They shall see But will they nill they they shall haue their eyes opened to see and be ashamed Gods iustice shall be so euident his vprightnesse and equall proceeding so manifest in the world as shall stop the mouth of all his foes yea to their vexation two things shall before their eyes torment them Gods zeale and loue vnto his Church his hatred of the wicked and his wrath that shall burne them vp God though he beare and for beare long yet is tender hearted to his people and iealous of their good Zeale c Fire Contrariwise he hath wrath in store for the wicked and vngodly their end shall be lamentable howsoeuer for a while they looke aloft and hold vp their heads Both these are notably expressed Zacharie 1. 14. 15. Thine enemies Here is an excellent comfort to Gods children that their enemies God esteemeth his as he saith to Abraham I will curse them that curse thee What need we then to feare them when they doe nothing to vs but God taketh it as done to him and who euer hardened himselfe against God and made his party good Iob 9. 4. 12. O Iehoua thou wilt ordaine peace for vs Also our affaires thou hast wrought for vs. 13. O Iehoua our God Lords besides thee haue mastred vs onely through thee doe we make mencion of thy name 14. They dead shall not liue deceased shall not rise therefore thou hast visited and cut them off and destroyed all the memorie of them 15. Thou hast added to this Nation O Iehoua thou hast added to this Nation life glorifying thy selfe whom thou didst remoue farre off vnto all the ends of the earth 16. O Iehoua in trouble they visited thee they powred out submisse prayer when thy chastisement was vpon them 17. Like as a woman with childe that draweth neere to trauell is in paine cryeth out in her pangs so haue we beene at thy sight O Iehoua 18. We were with childe we were in paine we did as it were bring forth winde no helpe could wee haue done in the land neyther should the inhabitants of the world haue fallen 19. Thy dead men shall liue my carcase they shall euery one of them arise awake thou savest and sing ye that dwell in dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbes after thou hast made men fall dead vpon the ground EXPOSITION THe fourth part of the Hymne is a magnifying of God for their deliuery ascribing the whole glory vnto him alone the onely Author both of their peace and of the meanes whatsoeuer was needfull for the procuring of it Which is amplified first by the Lordlinesse of the Tyrants keeping them so vnder that it must needs be the onely worke of God to enable them to be in case to remember his name and to returne praise vnto him for the accomplishment of his promises Secondly by consideration of the power and mercy of God raising them from so low estate Set out by a noble Antithesis or opposition of the worke of God towards those tyrants and vnto these his owne children they once down shall neuer rise againe nor their name be euer heard of For Gog and Magog shall vtterly be subuerted Reuel 20. 9. 10. This Nation the Nation of the Iewes brought to so low an ebbe shall haue life more and more heaped vpon them to Gods praise and glory In such wonderfull manner that they do as it were clap their hands for ioy to think vpon it which the Hebrew notably expresseth so as no other language can reach vnto Thirdly by comparing the former miseries with their great deliuerance the more to set forth the riches of Gods mercie We were say they driuen into the furthest parts of the earth as what Nation is there in the world which I say not hath not heard but hath not seene and felt the misery of their dispersion 2. We were in extreame anguish and heauinesse which wrung from vs teares and submisse prayers one excellent fruit of affliction No lesse then a woman ready to be deliuered when her throwes and pangs are vpon her 3. We were in a most desperate condition and estate no way able to helpe our selues or to preuaile against our foes All our endeuours could do nothing brought forth but winde Nay we were altogether dead and yet for all that thou hast restored life vnto our soules by thy word quickening vs. As the dew of heauen out of the seed rotted in the earth bringeth forth herbes and fruit for what is the wonderfull taking to of that Nation by the Ministery of the Gospell but life from the dead Rom. 11. 15. Obseruations 12. Thou disposest peace As God is the Author of all iudgements so is he the worker of all our peace Esay 45. 7. I frame light and create darknesse I make peace and create euill I Iehoua doe all these That in affliction we may learne not to despaire his hand is as mighty to pull vs out as euer it was to plunge vs in To vs. But this is the comfort of Gods people who are his fauourites and depend vpon his prouidence The wicked haue nothing to doe with it Ordainest In this fatherly dealing of God with his Church and people both the end and the meanes are to be respected The end is peace for all things sort for good vnto them Though he scourge and beat them it is but with the rods of the sonnes of men moderately and in measure 2. Sam. 7. 14.

Not for their hurt but that he may doe good vnto them in the end Mica 4. 12. Zach. 1. 15. Esay 47. 7. Which breedeth a great content in the middest of most heauy crosses maketh them warme at the heart euen then when they lye in their cold irons to sing and make a noyse to the honour and praise of God as if they were hot with wine as Paul and Sylas did Acts 16. Also all our affaires He doth not onely ordain things for good but taking the matter all and euery whit into his owne hands frameth and disposeth of euery thing as best may fit their purpose Our workes Yea as well things done against his Church as things by them and for them hee by his maruellous wisedome that bringeth light out of darknesse maketh to fall out for their singular good and comfort Our way therefore is to let him alone and to rest in that which he shall doe Not that wee are to sit still and neglect the meanes hee appointeth for our good that were not to depend vpon him but to tempt him But that when wee haue done all wee can wee roll our way vpon the Lord to trust in him and he will doe it Psal 37. 5. 6. 13. Other Lords besides thee No affliction so much humbleth Gods people as when such tyrannize ouer them that would iustle Christ out of his throne Haue maistred vs. And such mens tyrannie is for the most part of all other most heauy and intollerable and maketh the Church most to groane and sigh vnder the burden of it Onely through thee There be two reasons why God doth so great and marueylous things for his Church One that by helping them when all helpe of man doth faile all meanes taken away which flesh and bloud doth looke vnto he onely may haue the praise to do wonderfull things alone Psal 72. 18. Thus he telleth Gedeon comming with a great Armie against the Midianites These people are to many for me to deliuer Midian into their hands lest Israel take the glory to himselfe Saying my right hand hath done it Iudg. 7. 2. So prone we are to sacrifice to our owne nets and to arrogate the praise due to God Doe we mention thy name The other is to the end he may euer haue in the world a Church to celebrate and magnifie his name And here is the dutie we owe to God for all his benefits to be trumpets to sound forth his praises Dauid in the Psalmes often presseth this argument the dead do not praise Iah nor any that goe downe into silence But we will blesse Iah from henceforth and for euer Ps 115. 17 18. 16. In trouble See the corruption of mans nature that hath not the heart to speake to God vnlesse he be pressed to it by hard and heauy corrections How necessarie is affliction that maketh vs visit God to delight in his acquaintance Whereas otherwise we are ready with those wicked ones Iob 22. 17. Depart away from vs. Prayer is indeed the daughter of affliction but it is the mother of comfort As it was to the Church here and will be to all that tread in her steps Who euer humbled his soule in seeking God and went away without finding that he sought either in the same or in a far more excellent kinde Manasses was brought extremely low but when he cryed to the God of his Fathers how did he bring him backe vnto his kingdome Submisse Onely let vs looke our prayers be submisse humble and from the soule For proud Iustitiaries go away as empty as they came 29. Dead The assurance of Gods power which I shall shew it selfe in the rising of all flesh is the most exceltent argument to confirme vs in the promises of God hose that are most incredible to flesh and bloud He that can say to the Dead awake and come to iudgement is not he able to put life into this dead people of the Iewes Ezech. 37. Rev. 20. or can the condition of any be so desperate that he is not able to helpe them out Thy c. my c. The promises of God we must so know to be true and certaine to all Gods people that we exclude not our owne speciall and particular comfort Iob 19. 25. In the dust Of our selues we be most miserable in lamentable and wofull case as mourners were wont to sit in the dust The worke of Regeneration which is knit and ioyned with the calling of the lewes is as the rising of our dead bodies out of the dust As litle meanes there is in vs spiritually to quicken our soules as in our carcases to raise themselues vnto life Awake It is onely the power of God that is able for to do it He that said the word and all things were made that commanded light to shine out of darknes he onely is the author of our new life Thy dew The meanes is the word the word of the Gospell preached and sounding in the Church 1 Pet. 1. 25. Sing This filleth our mouthes with cheerefulnesse and with gladnes What matter ministreth such songs and cause of rejoycing as the quickning of our soules dead in sinnes and trespasses 20. Goe to my people enter into thy chambers and shut thy doores vpon thee hide for a very litle while till the indignation passe ouer 21. For behold Iehovah commeth out of his place to visit the iniquitie of the inhabitant of the earth vpon him and the earth shall disclose her slaughters and shall no more hide her slaine CHAP. 27. 1. In that same day will Iehovah visit with that his sore and great and mightie sword Leviathan the Serpent barr Leviathan I say the winding Serpent and will slay the Dragon that is in the Sea EXPOSITION THE Prophet now returneth to prosecute his purpose broken off by the two former Chapters most sweetly enterlaced Wherefore these two verses and the 27th Chapter following which should in truth be but one entire Chapter but that I would not confound the receiued distinction haue an explication of both parts of the prophecie that went before to wit first The finall deliuerie of the Nation of the Iewes in the vtter ouerthrow of the Turkish tyrant which you had Chap. 24 21. 22. and then the flourishing felicite of the Iewish Christian Church which was touched Chap. 24. 23. In the former part there is first a Preparation and then the Iudgement it selfe The preparation first by a kinde and louing Apostrophe to his people willeth them to rest with patience vnder the hope of Gods gratious protection betaking themselues to him with a sure faith in his promises whereby they may be safe and free in the middest of all dangers and perils as the Israelites were Exod. 12. 22. keeping within their doores when the destroyer went forth to slay the first borne in Aegypt And though it be a time of indignation the sorest and greatest time of affliction that euer was in any nation Dan. 12. 1.