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The blessing of Moses on the tribe of Asher opened and applyed in a mystical and spiritual sense, to every saint, and servant of Christ in a sermon on Deut. 33.25 ... / by T. Beverley.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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in their Old Age He was weary of them in their Old Age But they shall flourish like the Palm-tree and they shall be fat and flourishing For the Grace of God is able to run a Line Parallel with the longest of any of our Lives and his Grace shall be sufficient for us even to the very last and in the very end of Days As I have already spoken to you But then there is a Third and Higher sense As thy Days so shall thy strength be Now as his Shooes are of Iron and Brass so his Dayes are to be numbred even in that Kingdom of Jesus Christ and that Kingdom of Eternity There is therefore a strength suitable to that State of Glory of Eternal Glory and Salvation in the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ Consider Indeed it is a length of Duration beyond Expression beyond Comprehension The thousand years that the Scripture speaks of that the Kingdom of Christ shall be in visible Glory that is fully taken care for and the state of Eternity after that or the state of Eternity rather comprehending that and one with it Of that Kingdom there shall be no end for as the Day or Days of Eternity so their strength shall be the strength of Eternity So in that vastness of Eternity a Created Being that could not uphold and bear up it self it shall be born up by that Fountain of Life that is in God and by that Great Mediator of Life the Lord Jesus Christ He will take care that even throughout Everlastings of Everlastings there shall not be the least Retraction a retracting a drawing back of the Powers and Spirits of Life As the Days of Eternity so shall be the strength of the Servants of God O! how unspeakable how incomprehensibly Glorious is this that God hath ordained for everlasting every one of our Spirits It is not a Life of fifty sixty eighty or a hundred Years or any such Time to live the Life of Sense and Body It is all nothing how long soever it be We say 't was a wonderful Providence that kept Methuselah so long to so great an Age to reach almost to a thousand Years Alas this is nothing though it be very great yet we should think if we lived hundreds of Years in this Life how should we do for the Supports of it and for the Vigorous of it But now our Days are for the Days of Eternity but as our Days so shall our strength be And God hath assured this to us in the 16th Psalm last Verse Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fulness of joy and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore So that every way take the Days of the Servants of God how we will as are our Days so shall be our strength I come to the third Thing I Proposed and that was to Argue the Certainty of this I say to argue the certainty of it and it stands upon these two Considerations which I shall very briefly present to you First It arises from that Infinite strength of the Love of God in Jesus Christ made over to his Servants If he rides in his Excellency on the Sky if he will undertake for us if he will be our Refuge whose are the Everlasting Arms if they lye under it is impossible notwithstanding all Enemies we should fall he will thrust them utterly out There shall be no power of Satan there shall be no power of Sin no power of Death but whatsoever it be it shall be shut out for ever in the Lake He 'll say thrust them out and destroy them If he I say undertake how can it be otherwise if he will ride in the Heaven for our sake We should therefore often say to our selves Let us consider in all the Jealousies of our Natures and of our weak Beings in the midst of all these have we not an Eternal God Have we not an Infinite and Omnipotent Being If he take such a Drop of Being as I am this trembling Drop and if he 'll say I 'll enclose this little Drop in my own Omnipotency and set it in the Ocean of my own Immense Being and I 'll take care and secure it every moment How safe are we As we find in that Song God commanded to be sung Isa 27. 2 3. In that day sing ye unto her A Vineyard of red Wine I the Lord do keep it I will water it every moment I will keep it and sustain it from the first to the last from the very beginning of the Creation to Eternity and from Electing Love in Eternity throughout Eternity of Ages I the Lord will keep it I will water it every moment lest any hurt it I will keep it night and day And so it arises from the Infiniteness of God and from that Unchangeableness that he will never fail that he will never take off his Help And therefore God's strength is our strength and God's Eternity is our Security and the certainty of our state of life O! how excellent therefore is that in the 40th of Isaiah 27th Verse Why sayest thou O Jacob and speakest O Israel my way is hid from the Lord and my Judgment is passed over from my God Hast thou not known hast thou not heard that the everlasting God the Lord the Creator of the ends of the Earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding He giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he encreaseth strength even the Youths shall faint and he weary and the Young men shall utterly fail But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint O! If we could read and meditate and unite and Consolidate such a Scripture as this with our own Hearts with what certainty might we say As our Days so shall our strength be Take them any way as I have now described and Represented them to you Because the Creator of the ends of the Earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his Understanding He giveth power to the faint c. And then in the second place it arises from that great Interposer betwixt God and us the Lord Jesus Christ into whose hands he hath entrusted strength and laid help upon him because he is mighty I am perswaded we are not able to speak of the great Security that Jesus Christ is between the Eternal God and such Creatures as we are We do not know it we shall know it but we do not yet know it no one is able to express it to us as the thing it self is We are not able to Declare or Express the thing plentifully as the expression is in Job Plentifully as it is it is rather a matter of Profession to us or a matter of Confession of Faith and we cannot tell how to say it otherwise But Oh