saith God I have commanded it it shall bee so Bee it unto thee My Beloved Jesus Christ at last will say I command every Ordinance every Creature every word thou readest that it bee to thee as thou wilt Time was at first that Christ carried it so as nothing did subserve you or yeeld unto you any respect but when the Lord is reconciled at last hee will command all to bee yours Time was when no Man Means Creature Ordinance had any commission to smile on you or speak well to you and then it was sad But at length Christ will give a word send a Commission to all and command them saying Bee it so and so to such a poor soul as it will as it wisheth Secondly As there is a Commanding so there is a Creating Power in the Word and that is much Beleever Beleever though the Lord carry it at first like a man astonished hee will create mercy at last As in the Creation of the world God said Let there bee light and there was light c. So in Isa 57.7 saith God I create the fruit of the lips peace The Lord that creates light out of darkness peace out of trouble sweet out of bitter Hee will create for thee bee it light unto such a soul such a soul wants light and there is light created for him strength bee thou created for him c. I remember the Apostle Peter doth exhort Beleevers as their last refuge to eye the creating power of Christ and act Faith upon him not onely as a Redeemer but as a Creatour In 1 Pet. 4.19 Saith hee Commit the keeping of your souls to him in well doing as unto a faithful Creatour Soul if Creating Mercy can help you bee confident Christ will put it forth at length there shall bee another fiat another let there bee this or that for such a soul and that with creating influence in it And oh how kindly doth Christ carry it now at last that hee commands all and will create rather than fail comfort for this poor Woman Bee it unto thee even as thou wilt Thus have wee in Christs speech to this Woman seen as in a glimpse what his last dealings will bee with those that come to him And is not this enough to confirm your hearts that at last Christ will bee kinde however hee is at first But I proceed to the other thing here in Christs Carriage to this Woman Thirdly Her Daughter is made whole the same hour Poor Creatures you are full of unbeleef and I must say to you as John said These things are written thâ—t you might beleeve Christ will deal so well with poor souls that at last hee will give them their desires to the full And that which may bee their request in an eminent manner more particularly will the Lord Christ give them that I pray mark it a little thus The soul wants many mercies wishes all but it hath some particular pinch for the present c. Now that shall bee given in to the soul You have a fine expression to import the condescention of God to particular mercies in Psal 21.2 4. Thou hast given him his hearts desire and hast not with-holden the request of his lips Hee asked life of thee and thou gavest it him even length of daies for ever and ever Why my Beloved you that wait upon the Lord and truly come to him know and remember however hee carries it as if at first hee will grant nothing yet at last hee will grant every thing and in particular that Mercy that particular special Mercy which thy heart is drawn forth to mention before the Lord. Oh saith the soul I would have all sin dead but let this sin dye Now the soul shall have his this thing In this thing the good Lord bee merciful to mee why the Lord will in that thing bee kinde Let the soul single out its particular request Oh in this matter in that childe in this cause c. And hee shall finde Christ at last will come down to that very thing But I shall speak to this in the last Sermon by it self therefore I will not urge it here Onely now put all together and tell mee if the point bee not certain That Christ at last will deal very kindly with souls that truly come to him however at first hee may seem to deal harshly What could the poor soul wish more than shee had hee spake kindly now hee doth what shee will and as much as shee will now her Daughter shall bee whole in a moment c. This is all I shall say for the demonstration of the point There are some Objections to bee answered I shall at this time mention one Object I but will the soul say This is a particular example and particular examples they are not foundations for general conclusions Here is a Woman of Canaan and the Lord deals well with her what is this to mee For Answ Beloved in the Lord know this That every example of Gospel-grace is not so particular but that it is a general pattern All this was written that wee might beleeve And you know what the Apostle saith in that same Rom. 15. and the beginning These things are written for our learning c. Do not say This was a Woman of Canaan and I am a poor other kinde of creature Know this was written for thee In 1 Tim. 1.16 saith Paul there That in mee first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter beleeve on him to life everlasting If the Woman of Canaan were alive shee would say I was a pattern for thee shee would say Christ dealt thus with mee first to shew how hee would deal with other poor creatures afterwards Let this bee an answer But then the Second Answer is this The account upon which shee had this grace it was not particular but common A particular thing with a particular account is too streight to bee made a general Rule but a particular example upon a general account may bee made a general Rule remember that Now this mercy was given to her not upon any personal particular account but upon a general account what is that account Woman great is thy Faith Shee hath this mercy not as a Woman nor as a Woman of Canaan nor as so and so speaking but as a Beleever Now upon this Reason Because the Lord dealth thus with her upon the account of Faith where-ever there is true Faith the Lord will deal thus It is the particular argument of Rom. 4. The Apostle proves that Abrahams Justification was a general type to others How doth hee prove it because it came to him by Faith The strength of the Argument lies thus Abraham was not justified as such a man upon any personal account but because hee was a beleever and therefore hee argues that all beleevers should bee justified as hee was Therefore do not say it was a particular example it
the saving of the sick Now a little to clear up this you must know first that this is to bee understood of corporal sicknesses and therefore the very two terms that are here used for saving and sick are usually applied to corporal diseases I but it is said this was by virtue of the anointing of the Elders To this I answer this expression hath been abused But however that this salvation doth not depend upon the anointing will appear if you observe the phrase And the Prayer of Faith shall save the sick Hee doth not say the Anointing shall do it but the Prayer of Faith and further observe this is a general Scripture concerning all ages built upon perpetual grounds and to hold now as well as then That coming to Christ in Faith will prevail with him for corporal kindnesses both for our selves and others Wee shall add no more for the proof but give you the Reasons There are five Reasons whence it comes to pass that sometimes our Lord Jesus Christ is prevailed withall by those that faithfully come to him incorporal cases for themselves and others Reas 1. That the Lord Jesus may shew that hee hath power in this particular My Beloved Jesus Christ will sometimes speak and do such a word and such a work for this reason that it may bee known what hee could do in that case In Matth. 9. and the beginning Why did hee say to the sick of the Passie Bee of good cheer thy sins are forgiven thee but that they might know the Son of Man hath power on the the Earth to forgive sins Beleevers Beleevers you shall know what your Saviour can do you shall know what a Christ you have and what hee can do in every thing You think hee can do for your souls you do not question it hee will make you know hee can do for your bodies too That hee may shew his power hee will sometimes shew corporal kindnesses Secondly That hee may shew himself to bee the same in all ages My Beloved poor hearts are too too ready to sing that doleful Psalm Is the Lords mercy clean gone is his loving kindness come to an end c. Poor hearts are too too ready to say the Lord did such a mercy at such a time but did hee not then resolve to do so no more at such a time the Lord healed such a one but did hee not end the work then No the Lord Christ is from everlasting to everlasting thorow all generations saith the Psalmist Psal 103.14 17. verses For hee knoweth our frame hee remembreth that wee are but dust but the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his Righteousness unto childrens children That you may know that it is not onely a peculiar mercy to those times therefore thorow all generations hee will heal as hee did then that it may appear hee is the same in all ages That Text is to bee understood of corporals Thirdly The Lord Jesus will sometimes shew corporal kindnesses to our selves and others that hereby hee may ingage us Oh my Beloved Jesus Christ doth love to ingage poor souls to himself hee loves to lay his fair yoak upon your backs hee loves to lay the cords of men of humane love upon their hearts to binde them to himself Now corporal kindnesses do much ingage The truth is it is our folly and Christs kindness in a mystery that a corporal kindness works more sometimes than a spiritual and Christ therefore goes that way to work upon us Wee finde in dealing with children and the Lord knows silly children wee are the best of us that wee do oftentimes more win by an Apple than a better thing Oh wee have a good Christ that condescends to our childishness hee will have corporal kindnesses because hee sees they will prevail with us sometimes when others will not How stately is that Psalm Psal 116. Oh saith David there I will love the Lord c. What did ingage David I was in misery the sorrows of death took hold of mee and the Lord delivered mee c. Oh for the Lord Jesus to shew a kindness to our poor carkasses doth ingage much At such a time I had a childe sick a relation sick I prayed to the Lord and the Lord heard mee I will love the Lord as long as I live Fourthly The Lord doth it that hee may incourage Faith Sirs glorious things as Doctor Sibbs applied that Scripture are spoken of thee O thou Grace of Faith Now this is a great incouragement when Faith shall prevail with Christ for body and soul too for inward and outward mercies how is Faith incouraged Pray will you turn to John 4.53 The kindness of Christ to the Noble mans childe whom the Lord did cure upon his Fathers request mark how it did work upon that great man Hee enquired concerning the time and hee knew that it was at the time that Christ said his Son liveth What follows then Himself beleeved and his whole house Why did not the man beleeve before Christ had cured his childe Yes in vers 50. it is said Hee beleeved but the Master that beleeved before beleeves more I and the whole Family beleeved too Verily Sirs Faith is marvelously incouraged by corporal kindnesses What did incourage David against Goliah but this Thy servant slew both the Lion and the Bear and this uncircumcised Philistine shall bee as one of them Oh when the Lord shall hear us for our poor carkasses this will incourage Faith Many a person hath been wrought upon to come to Christ by the kindnesses that hee hath shewed to others There is a story of a poor Christian Maid in the Ecclesiastical histories whose Prayer and Faith cured a great Mans childe in a heathenish place The Governour of the place had a childe sick and every one was to give somewhat to help it but nothing would do at last a poor captive Christian was asked what shee could do shee said I can pray to my God and hee can heal shee did so and the childe was healed and it is said it was the occasion to work upon many to inquire after and to embrace Jesus Christ and the Christian Religion And let mee appeal unto you have you not known at least have you not heard of some poor wretched creatures that have been much wrought upon when they have observed that God hath heard the prayers of such a Minister of such a poor Christian when they were sick and this hath drawn them on in the way of Faith and Holiness Fifthly and lastly Jesus Christ will sometimes shew corporal kindnesses that so hee may make good all the Promises In 1 Tim. 4.8 Godliness is said to have the Promise of the Life that now is and of that which is to come Why now you know what is said in 2 Cor. 1.20 That in him all the Promises are Yea and Amen All Promises are made to Beleevers but the fulfilling of
bread and give it to Doggs But how well is the world mended with this poor creature Now the Lord doth not hint that hee was not sent to her but hee calls her beleever Now hee doth not tell her shee should not have childrens bread but now hee bids her take what shee would Once it may bee poor soul Jesus Christ said this to thy conscience Thou art a Rebel deserving no mercy at another time it may bee hee said this Thou art a filthy person and not yet prepared for mercy I but at last Christ will no more mention guilt or filth but hee will say to thee Rebel There is a pardon And to thee polluted sinnet There is purging and cleansing yea hee will say to thee poor soul There is Mercy All Mercy Any Mercy what thou wantest what thou wilt there it is c. As it is in this expression here to this Woman of Canaan I will open this too in two or three steps Bee it unto thee even as thou wilt First How fully doth the Lord spenk to this Woman Psal 81.10 Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it Woman take to the full as much as thou wilt As if our Lord Christ should say Woman Thou art a poor Woman of Canaan and art in want and I have a rich Treasure it is unsearchable go to the Mine take what thou wilt Woman I see thou art a poor hungry soul and I am Manna and bread from Heaven come to mee and take as much as thou wilt Woman thou hast made but one Petition but I see more in thy heart take what thou wilt My Beloved the Lord Jesus Christ hee gives like himself very largely to poor creatures Hee satisfies their souls even to the full David at last could sing such a song as this is Psal 103.3 Bless the Lord Oh my soul who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases c. You that lye hungring at the gate of Christ and cry bread Lord a Morsel Lord yea a Câ—umb Lord Christ will say There is a whole Loaf bee it to thee as thou wilt It was the speech of a dying Saint that lived long full of sorrow I am now as full of joy as my heart can hold See Zach. 9.12 Turn yee to the strong hold yee prisoners of hope even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee Good now minde it poor soul it may bee Jesus Christ may shut thee up in prison yet there thou wilt bee a prisoner of hope I but what shall you have at last Hee will render double unto thee All the Lords children at last they shall have double So it was with Joseph hee had hard usage at first cast into prison c. but at last hee is out and Governour of all the Land At last Christ will deal with you all as hee dealt with Joseph The Lord Jesus will deal with a bountiful hand full heaped up running over That is the first thing But then Secondly Bee it unto thee EVEN AS thou wilt It relates to the Manner eminently as well as to the Matter As thou wilt that is in such a manner as thou wilt When David came up to Araunah to have the threshing-floor and cattel for a sacrifice hee would have them so and so And Araunah said to him Do what seemeth good unto thee 2 Sam. 24.22 And there is very much in that The Lords people have their hearts many times set upon the manner of their mercy Deal bountifully with thy servant as thou usest to do unto those that love thy Name saith David in Psal 119.132 The poor soul that lies at the feet of Christ would have mercy and have such mercy as his Lambs have that lye in his bosome Thomas hee would have a sign from the Lord and hee would have such a sign John 20.25 and in vers 27. Christ condescends to him but a little to open this One while the soul will have Love I and it must bee immediate Love Let him kiss mee with the kisses of his mouth Cant. 1.2 It was a very elegant and holy allusion of Bernard and therefore I shall mention it There is the kiss of the foot of Christ and of the hand and of the mouth of Christ i. e. There are several sorts of kinde expressions now the Spouse specifieth what kinde of Love-expression shee would have as sometimes the soul doth and may do shee would have not the kiss of the feet but of the mouth and Christ gave it her as shee intimates vers 4. Minde it then One while thy soul will have immediate Love-Tokens and the Lord will give you as you will Another while the soul cries out as David in Psal 35.3 Say thou unto my soul thou art my salvation c. The childe will have bread and it will have it upon the Mothers lap Another while the soul is ready to say Shew mee a token for good that those that hate mee may see it and bee ashamed Psal 86.17 18. Oh my Beloved what infinite love is it in Jesus Christ that hee should condescend so low as to give us not onely what wee will but as wee will That expression is very full in Psal 145.19 Hee will fulfil the desire of them that fear him The soul hath what hee will and just as hee will have it his whole desire And so Jesus Christ will do and therefore bear up your hearts you that come to Christ hee may deal harshly with you at first but hee will let it bee as you will at last Thirdly and lastly Bee it unto thee Christ is very positive very peremptory hee speaks as one resolved to do The Lord Jesus doth not say I will think of it or I will take it into consideration and it may bee it shall bee so but hee is positive Bee it unto thee even as thou wilt Two things there are that I eye in this expression Bee it unto thee First It is a Commanding word Secondly It is a Creating word First It is a Commanding word Bee it unto thee The Lord doth as it were command and say Woman I have commanded that it shall bee so In Psal 42.8 Saith the Psalmist there The Lord will command his loving-kindness in the day time and in the night his song shall bee with mee The poor soul while it is in the world it must deal with means as well as with grace and the soul is ready to say will the means give out Just as the poor petitioner that deals with a Lord but hee deals likewise with some of the Officers though the Lord grant his request yet hee doubts whether hee shall get it our of the Officers hand why saith hee I have commanded it Remember and rejoyce in this hint O poor heart who hopest Christ is free but doubtest what means may do Possibly thou hast said this I have good hope the Lord will speak kindly to mee but will the Ordinances give it out too why
you come to him that cries after you in the streets as it is Prov. 1. If you lye not still but come at his cry and upon his call then will hee pour forth his Spirit on you as in that place hee promiseth Prov. 1.23 If you perish in your own neglect to come so it is but if you come Christ will not let you perish at his doors Oh no The Lord Jesus will never bee a Dives a poor Lazarus at Christs door shall never perish there never did any that lay knocking and begging for mercy there go away and perish for the want of it Fourthly The Lord Christ will bee thus kinde at last That hee may stop the mouths of all those that are ready to speak hardly of him My Beloved if Christ should alwaies carry it strangely especially when the sould carries it humbly soon you would hear that speech of the man in the Parable I knew thou wert a hard Master But God is resolved that never shall there bee a witness brought against him of his hardness This Woman of Canaan might have been brought in as a witness against Jesus Christ if after all this hee should have cast her off but God will bee true and all men lyers Hee will bee kinde at last to confure that report and reproach which Satan and unbeleef are ready to cast on him truly I may say Christ will bee kinde for his own credir That none may slander him hee will and must bee sweet at last Fifthly and lastly Christ hath a particular design to destroy the work of the Devil Now my Beloved upon this account it is that hee will deal kindly at last for if Christ should not at last deal well with those that truly come to him the design of the Devil would not bee destroyed I build the foundation of this reason upon that Scripture in 1 John 3.8 For this purpose was the Son of God manifested that hee might destroy the works of the Devil When a poor soul comes to Christ and is roughly dealt withall the Devil hath a three-fold design upon that score Viz. One design is upon the soul it self to lead the soul to despair Another design is upon other sinners to discourage them for ever from comming to Jesus Christ And a third design which though last in execution is first in intention and that is to cast a disgrace upon Jesus Christ If this poor Woman should have been sent away and not been dealt kindly withall The Devil would have said now despair now no body go to him c. How doth Satan say it is in vain for you to pray to beleeve Nay though you worship him hee will not regard it Now mark it the Lord is resolved to destroy the designs of Satan and that Satan may never prosper in these designs Christ will carry it well at last however hee may carry it ill at first Doth Satan say it is in vain to wait No it is not in vain to wait for the Woman of Canaan waited and was accepted doth Satan say go not to Jesus Christ hee will not receive you Yes then say thou and thou O soul every one that is not resolved to hearken to Satan for his own ruine wee will go hee will receive us at last doth Satan say hee is a hard Master say no hee will deal kindly at last Well to come to the Application indeed the prime and the proper Use of this point is but one and that I shall principally stand upon but I shall add another though briefly Use The prime Use of this Point is but one Namely for the comfort and the refreshing of all those who it may bee are in the same condition that the Woman of Canaan was Who is there among you that feareth the Lord and obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh in darkness and hath no light Let him trust in the Name of the Lord and stay upon his God Isa 50.10 What soul is there that hath found a want of Christ and hath had a desire after Christ and hath been a great while waiting upon Christ and hath not had your desires satisfied bee of good comfort though the Lord tarry long hee will come at last The Lord that seems to carry it rough at first at last in the issue will carry it kindly Therefore bear up your hearts it may bee your issue is not yet come and no marvel if Christ do not speak Possibly you are but in the Treaty as I spake in the Explication the last day or it may bee you are not yet fully come nor do really and rightly cloze with Jesus Christ For certain if that were hee would bee kinde unto you according to your hearts desire It is a full and everlasting speech of comfort that that you have in Job Job 8.20 21. Behold God will not cast away a perfect man neither will hee help the evil-doers till hee fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with rejoycing Thou dost lye before Jesus Christ and hee seems to reject thee I but know That hee will not cast thee away till hee hath filled thy mouth with gladness No though at present hee may seem to carry it strange yet in the issue hee will carry it well Because I would clearly hold forth this I shall speak my thoughts by two or three steps There are two things I would speak to all you who it may bee are in the condition of the Woman of Canaan First Beware how thou thinkest thy estate too strange and how thou inquirest after the cause of it too far Secondly Bee confident of this how strange soever thy case bee now the conclusion shall bee very sweet First Beware how thou thinkest thy state too strange and how thou inquirest after the cause of it too far Was there ever sorrow like to my sorrow and was there ever soul like to my soul saith the poor soul c. and what is the matter that I have knockt and knockt till I am weary of knocking Oh what is the cause c. bee not too curious in looking after the cause possibly there may bee a reason that at first you may not see but you may see it hereafter As Christ said to Peter What I do thou knowest not now but thou shalt know hereafter John 13.7 Hereafter thou shalt know why the Lord did keep thee from childrens bread so long and it may bee by the way it was to bring down thy proud stomach hereafter the Lord will satisfie thee but at present know that no new thing hath happened to thee others have lain as long as you Secondly Bee confident of this how strange soever thy case bee the conclusion shall bee very sweet My Beloved the Lord Jesus cannot shut up his bowels the Lord Jesus cannot alwaies refrain himself Isa 63.15 Where are the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercy towards us are they restrained That passage in Psal 42. is remarkable though David was very sad
yet saith hee in vers 8. The Lord will command salvation for mee and yet I shall praise him And verily at last you shall see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living hee will command and create comfort for you I but saith the soul though David might say so what is that to mee still I say remember it is to thee All that take hold of the Covenant of Grace that God made with David God makes with them the sure mercies of David as it is in that precious Promise Isa 55.3 But however mark the example wee are upon consider the Woman of Canaan and when you consider the whole story of her you may bee confident at last Christ will deal kindly with you Minde above and besides what wee have said Three things in this story to comfort your hearts that however Christ may deal harshly at first yet in the end hee will deal kindly First You cannot bee further off from Jesus Christ than the Woman of Canaan was Secondly You cannot bee dealt withall worse than the Woman of Canaan was But. Thirdly Though wee should grant you should bee further off than the Woman of Canaan was and dealt withalt worse than shee was yet there is hope in Israel for this thing First You cannot bee further off than the Woman of Canaan was My Beloved There were no people visibly so far from the Covenant of Grace and so much out of the Commission of Christ as the Canaanites and the Samaritans and yet it is observable you have two great instances the one of a Canaanite and the other of a Samaritan that Christ must deal well withall In John 4. It is said of Christ That hee must needs go thorow Samaria and what was it for but to bring home a poor Woman of Samaria now a Samaritan was far off from Christ and such a one as shee was very far from Christ yet the Lord at last must deal kindly with her And so this Woman of Canaan shee was far off from Jesus Christ shee was a Woman of Tyre and Sidon yet shee came to the Lord and the Lord dealt well with her Secondly Consider this for your comfort Christ cannot deal worse with you than hee dealt with the Woman of Canaan I beseech you in the Lords presence you that have been under any darkness clouds or trouble tell mee did ever the Lord speak to you as hee did to this Woman when you said Jesus thou Saviour of sinners have mercy upon mee did hee ever say I was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel when in the anguish of your spirits you did turn into a corner and lay in the dust grovling and crying for a crumb of comfort did hee ever tell you It was not meet to give you childrens bread yet you see Christ said so to this Woman Indeed I think Christ never dealt with any all things considered so seemingly ill and rough as with this woman Certainly you cannot bee worse dealt with yet at last you see how well shee speed But then Thirdly Suppose suppose that you bee further off from Christ than the woman of Canaan was and that you have been dealt withall worse than the woman of Canaan was Yet there is hope in Israel concerning this thing Why what hope there is this hope that the Lord will create a new thing in the world It is often used in the Prophets that expression among others I shall now minde you onely of one In Isa 43.18 19. Saith the Lord there unto his people Remember yee not the former things neither consider the things of old Behold I will do a new thing c. As if the Lord should say My people look back to the daies past do not you remember former things happily they may say wee remember old experiences but ours is a new case wee remember what thou didst in the daies of old but our case is worse than theirs Behold saith God A new thing I will create and what is that new thing God will create Why the Beasts of the field shall honour him c. Time was when the Virgin Daughter of Sion did honour him time was when Israel followed him thorow the wilderness I but now God will create a new thing The Beasts of the field shall honour him My Beloved there is very much in this viz. in the Creating-power and the Creating-mercy of the heart of God Suppose never was any so far off nor never any so dealt withall yet the Lord will create a new thing in the world So that I say it may much comfort the hearts of all those that are in the condition of the Woman of Canaan that the Lord will deal well at last however hee may deal at first Object But now my thinks I hear the poor soul say But I am not like the Woman of Canaan were I as the Woman of Canaan then I should hope the Lord would deal well with mee but I am not as shee Why how is that Answ I have not that Grace as shee had I have not her Prayer her Humility I never worshipped the Lord as the Woman of Canaan did I never was so broken as the Woman of Canaan was I shall give two Answers First If you bee not so humble as the Woman of Canaan think of it now to bee as humble as shee was But yet I tell you in the Second place It was not the Woman of Canaan 's Humility nor her Patience nor her Prayer not the Worshipping but the Woman of Canaan 's Faith upon which the Lord did all And I take it to bee an undeniable truth that that Grace unto which all kindness is shewed is the Grace of Faith True Humility is good and so is Humiliation and the Lord give us our measure but yet I say the great Promise is not to Humility nor to Humiliation but to Faith Woman great is thy Faith Object I but then secondly saith the soul But I have not the Woman of Canaan 's Faith If I had her Faith I should think the Lord would deal well with mee It is said the Woman of Canaan had a great Faith but the Lord knows I have but a little Answ I have answered already this and shewed That it was not to the measure of the Grace but to the Grace it self that Christ did this Therefore I say as often as you read the story of the Woman of Canaan comfort your hearts with these words do as the Prophet Habakkuk chap. 2. vers 1. I will stand upon my Watch-Tower and observe what God will say for the vision will speak at last So say I to the Sons and Daughters of the Woman of Candan Go upon your Watch-Tower and observe the vision will speak at last I shall hint to you that speech in Isa 54.6 The Lord hath called mee as a Woman forsaken and grieved in spirit and a wife of youth when thou wast refused saith thy God The Lord hath