MOUNT
PISGAH
.
DEUT
.
3.24
,
25.
Text
.
O
Lord
God
,
thou
hast
begun
to
shew
thy
Servant
thy
greatness
,
and
thy
mighty
hand
;
for
what
God
is
there
in
heaven
,
or
in
earth
,
that
can
do
according
to
thy
works
,
and
according
to
thy
might
?
I
pray
thee
let
me
go
over
and
see
the
good
land
that
is
beyond
Jordan
,
that
goodly
Mountain
,
and
Lebanon
.
TIS
the
Observation
of
a
Learned
Man
,
Dr.
T.
Goodwin
in
Apoc
.
p.
189.
that
the
Revolution
of
an
Hundred
Years
hath
produced
(
especially
in
these
latter
times
)
new
Motions
and
Alterations
in
the
Church
,
like
unto
those
that
fell
out
an
Hundred
Years
before
.
So
it
was
in
Germany
,
and
Bohemia
.
John
Hus
at
the
stake
,
about
the
year
1417
,
uttered
this
remarkable
speech
,
After
an
hundred
years
you
Papists
shall
be
called
to
an
account
.
The
Bohemians
caused
post
centum
annos
to
be
stampt
upon
their
Coin
,
for
the
preservation
of
so
memorable
a
Prediction
;
and
accordingly
an
Hundred
Years
after
,
viz.
1517.
Luther
arose
,
and
with
him
the
Reformation
.
It
hath
been
so
in
England
.
Our
Fathers
deservedly
set
a
signal
remembrance
upon
the
year
1588
,
Annus
octogesimus
octavus
est
Annus
mirabilis
;
the
year
Eighty
Eight
is
a
wonderful
year
,
and
it
was
so
indeed
,
for
then
the
Lord
defeated
the
formidable
Enemies
of
his
Cause
and
People
with
a
mighty
hand
,
and
an
outstretched
arm
upon
the
great
Waters
.
Then
did
England
sing
his
Praises
,
saying
,
Who
is
like
unto
thee
,
O
Lord
,
among
the
Gods
?
Who
is
like
unto
thee
,
glorious
in
holiness
,
fearful
in
praises
,
doing
wonders
?
Exod
.
15.11
.
A
full
Century
is
now
run
out
since
that
year
of
Wonders
,
wherein
we
have
reaped
the
precious
and
inestimable
fruits
of
that
years
Mercy
.
And
notwithstanding
the
great
ingratitude
of
this
Nation
for
all
the
Civil
and
Spiritual
Mercies
it
hath
enjoyed
in
consequence
to
that
Mercy
,
whereby
God
hath
been
highly
provoked
to
say
to
England
as
he
did
to
Israel
,
Judg
.
10.13
.
I
will
deliver
you
no
more
,
yet
behold
another
Eighty
Eight
crowned
and
enriched
with
Mercies
,
no
less
admirable
and
glorious
than
the
former
;
a
year
for
which
the
Children
yet
unborn
shall
praise
the
Lord
.
You
are
called
this
day
to
rejoice
,
I
am
not
only
called
to
rejoyce
with
you
in
the
Publick
Mercies
of
this
day
;
but
also
to
direct
you
to
the
best
way
of
improving
the
Mercies
you
rejoice
in
,
that
they
may
prove
introductive
to
greater
Mercies
than
themselves
.
To
that
end
I
have
chosen
this
Scripture
which
contains
both
Parts
of
the
Work
and
Duty
of
the
Day
.
The
Text
contains
the
sum
of
Moses
his
Prayer
at
Edrei
,
after
the
signal
Victory
God
there
gave
him
over
the
last
Enemy
that
forbad
his
passage
to
the
Confines
of
Canaan
.
This
Edrei
,
was
a
Town
on
this
side
Jordan
,
scituate
in
the
fruitful
Country
of
Bashan
,
near
unto
that
famous
River
by
which
it
was
divided
from
the
Land
of
Promise
,
and
afterwards
fell
to
the
lot
of
Manasseh
.
Hither
Moses
had
led
the
People
,
and
now
it
was
but
one
remove
more
,
(
their
passage
over
Jordan
)
and
they
should
finish
their
wearisom
peregrination
,
and
arrive
at
the
desire
of
their
hearts
,
even
rest
and
settlement
in
that
good
Land
the
Lord
had
promised
them
.
And
here
you
may
see
how
swift
and
strong
the
motion
of
Moses
his
spirit
in
Prayer
is
,
now
it
was
come
so
nigh
the
Centre
,
almost
in
sight
of
that
pleasant
Land
,
where
God
intended
to
settle
his
Worship
and
record
his
Name
.
O
Lord
thou
hast
begun
to
shew
thy
Servant
thy
greatness
,
&c.
I
pray
thee
let
me
go
over
,
and
see
the
good
land
that
is
beyond
Jordan
,
that
goodly
mountain
,
and
Lebanon
.
Wherein
note
,
-
1.
The
Mercy
pray'd
for
.
-
2.
The
Argument
pleaded
to
obtain
it
.
1.
The
Mercy
Moses
prayes
for
,
that
he
might
go
over
,
and
see
the
good
Land
,
&c.
The
good
land
was
Canaan
,
called
the
glory
of
all
Lands
,
Ezek
.
20.6
.
it
was
a
glorious
land
in
respect
of
its
natural
Fertility
and
amaenity
;
but
much
more
glorious
in
respect
of
the
Presence
of
God
in
his
Ordinances
.
And
therefore
above
all
the
pleasant
sights
in
Canaan
,
he
desires
to
see
that
goodly
mountain
,
that
is
Mount
Moriah
,
on
which
Abraham
offered
up
his
onely
son
Isaac
,
and
whereon
by
the
Spirit
of
Prophecy
Moses
foresaw
the
glorious
Temple
was
to
be
built
,
whither
the
Tribes
should
go
up
to
Worship
,
even
the
Tribes
of
the
Lord
unto
the
Testimony
of
Israel
.
There
were
to
be
the
Symbols
of
his
Presence
,
and
the
House
of
Prayer
for
all
People
.
There
the
Ark
was
to
rest
,
and
all
the
Promises
made
to
Abraham
and
his
seed
to
be
fulfilled
.
This
inflames
the
desires
of
Moses
,
(
now
upon
the
very
borders
)
to
have
a
sight
of
that
goodly
Mountain
,
and
Lebanon
,
that
famous
Forest
so
renowned
in
Scripture
,
of
whose
stately
Cedars
the
Glorious
Temple
was
to
be
built
,
1
King
.
5.6
,
9.
This
desire
of
Moses
was
not
from
any
superstitious
opinion
he
had
of
the
holiness
of
the
place
,
in
respect
of
the
Patriarchs
whose
bones
were
laid
in
that
land
,
(
as
some
Popish
Glosses
would
have
it
)
but
he
earnestly
desired
to
see
the
accomplishment
of
the
Promises
now
so
nigh
the
birth
,
by
the
actual
possession
of
that
good
land
.
This
was
the
Mercy
he
pray'd
for
.
Object
.
But
how
could
Moses
desire
to
go
over
Jordan
into
this
good
Land
,
when
God
had
before
so
expresly
told
him
he
should
not
.
Numb
.
20.12
.
And
the
Lord
spake
unto
Moses
and
Aaron
,
because
ye
believed
me
not
,
to
sanctifie
me
in
the
eyes
of
the
Children
of
Israel
,
therefore
ye
shall
not
bring
this
Congregation
into
the
land
which
I
have
given
them
.
Did
this
Holy
Man
suffer
his
desires
to
transport
him
beyond
his
Duty
,
to
go
further
than
God
would
have
him
?
Sol
.
No
,
he
did
not
,
but
not
being
sure
the
threatning
was
absolute
,
but
might
be
such
a
one
as
was
made
of
Hezekiahs
Death
,
2
King
.
20.1
.
or
of
Ninevehs
Destruction
,
Jonah
3.4
.
there
was
room
for
Prayer
.
You
see
the
Mercy
Moses
pray'd
for
.
2.
Let
us
next
consider
the
Argument
by
him
pleaded
for
the
obtaining
of
his
suit
,
and
that
is
taken
from
the
whole
series
of
former
Mercies
which
were
all
introductive
to
this
remaining
and
compleating
Mercy
,
the
planting
of
them
in
the
Land
of
Promise
.
O
Lord
God
,
thou
hast
begun
to
shew
thy
servant
thy
greatness
,
and
thy
mighty
hand
,
&c.
Where
note
,
1.
His
most
thankful
acknowledgement
and
magnifying
of
past
and
present
Mercies
.
His
Eyes
were
not
so
dazled
with
the
splendour
of
Mercy
to
come
,
and
in
a
near
expectation
,
as
to
overlook
the
former
or
present
Mercies
as
small
and
inconsiderable
.
No
,
he
lifts
up
the
name
of
God
in
his
Praises
for
them
,
and
tells
him
he
had
begun
to
shew
him
his
Greatness
in
them
.
They
are
great
in
Moses's
Eye
,
and
he
expresses
a
suitable
sense
of
them
.
He
well
knew
the
way
to
engage
further
Mercies
is
thankfully
to
acknowledge
and
magnifie
past
and
present
ones
.
But
,
2.
He
rests
not
there
,
but
improves
these
beginings
of
Mercies
,
and
pleads
them
in
his
Argumentative
Prayer
for
the
consummating
and
perfecting
Mercies
yet
to
come
,
q.
d
.
Lord
thy
works
are
perfect
,
thou
dost
not
use
to
begin
and
not
to
finish
,
as
Men
do
;
to
bring
to
the
birth
,
and
not
cause
to
bring
forth
:
The
Gods
of
the
Heathen
are
a
lye
,
and
vanity
,
but
thou
art
the
true
God
,
and
thy
Promises
are
Truth
it
self
.
Now
Lord
in
pursuance
of
thy
promises
,
to
Abraham
,
Isaac
and
Jacob
,
thou
hast
begun
to
fulfil
the
Mercy
promised
,
Israel
is
brought
with
Signs
and
Wonders
and
a
mighty
hand
out
of
Egypt
,
and
upon
the
very
borders
of
the
Land
,
Lord
compleat
the
work
now
in
giving
them
the
possession
of
it
,
and
for
me
Lord
,
I
pray
thee
(
if
it
be
thy
Will
)
let
me
enter
with
them
,
and
as
I
have
had
my
part
in
the
troubles
of
Egypt
,
straights
and
Tryals
these
Forty
Years
in
the
Desert
;
let
me
take
my
part
also
in
the
Joy
,
Rest
and
Comfort
of
that
blessed
Land
to
which
I
am
now
come
so
nigh
.
This
seems
to
be
the
sense
and
meaning
of
Moses
Prayer
.
Divers
Excellent
points
of
Doctrine
naturally
offer
themselves
from
the
Text
,
as
Doctrine
I.
That
the
rest
and
prosperity
of
the
Church
is
a
very
desirable
Mercy
in
the
eyes
of
the
Saints
.
If
any
thing
will
make
a
Christian
desirous
to
abide
on
Earth
,
next
to
the
finishing
of
the
work
of
Grace
on
him
,
and
the
work
of
Obedience
by
him
,
this
is
the
thing
,
Psal
.
106.4
,
5.
Remember
me
O
Lord
,
with
the
favour
that
thou
bearest
unto
thy
people
;
O
visit
me
with
thy
salvation
:
that
I
may
see
the
good
of
thy
chosen
,
that
I
may
rejoyce
with
the
gladness
of
thy
nation
;
that
I
may
glory
with
thine
inheritance
.
Doctrine
II
.
How
desireable
soever
it
be
to
see
the
Churches
Glory
and
Prosperity
on
Earth
,
yet
the
greatest
and
best
of
Saints
may
be
denied
it
.
Moses
the
Saint
of
God
,
the
Favorite
of
Heaven
,
earnestly
desired
the
sight
of
this
Mercy
,
and
was
denied
it
.
Get
thee
up
to
Mount
Nebo
,
saith
God
,
and
dye
there
,
thou
shalt
not
go
over
Jordan
,
and
yet
Moses
was
no
loser
by
it
.
Though
God
shut
him
out
of
Canaan
,
he
took
him
into
Heaven
.
We
read
Matth
.
13.17
.
of
that
blessed
day
when
Christ
was
among
men
in
the
flesh
,
Preaching
,
Praying
and
Working
Miracles
,
that
many
Prophets
and
Righteous
Men
desired
to
see
those
things
which
they
saw
(
among
whom
he
walked
)
and
saw
them
not
,
and
to
hear
the
things
which
they
heard
,
but
did
not
hear
them
,
Demarathus
of
Corinth
was
wont
to
say
,
that
those
Grecians
lost
a
great
part
of
the
Comfort
of
their
Lives
,
that
had
not
seen
great
Alexander
sitting
upon
Darius
his
Throne
,
St.
Augustine
wished
to
have
seen
three
things
,
Rome
in
its
glory
,
Paul
in
the
face
,
and
Christ
in
the
Flesh
.
But
we
must
not
be
our
own
choosers
,
it
shall
be
given
to
them
for
whom
it
is
appointed
.
But
I
stay
not
upon
either
of
these
,
there
are
two
other
points
in
the
Text
which
invite
my
Thoughts
and
Discourse
this
day
;
viz.
Doctrine
III
.
That
great
Mercies
received
(
though
there
be
yet
greater
than
they
to
be
expected
)
call
for
an
answerable
sense
and
acknowledgement
in
the
Saints
.
Doctrine
IV
.
That
the
beginnings
of
Mercy
and
Deliverance
to
the
Church
are
convertible
into
so
many
Pleas
and
Arguments
in
prayer
for
the
perfection
and
Consummation
thereof
.
I
begin
with
the
former
,
viz.
Doctrine
III
.
That
great
Mercies
received
(
though
there
be
greater
than
they
to
be
expected
)
call
for
an
answerable
sense
and
acknowledgment
in
the
Saints
.
Moses
magnifies
the
Mercies
received
in
Egypt
,
and
in
the
Wilderness
at
the
Red
Sea
,
and
at
Edrei
,
as
things
wherein
God
had
begun
to
show
him
his
greatness
,
and
his
mighty
hand
,
things
on
which
God
had
visibly
stampt
and
impressed
his
Greatness
:
though
he
still
expected
greater
things
to
come
.
't
was
Elihu's
Counsel
to
Job
with
respect
to
Gods
providential
proceedings
with
him
,
Job
36.24
.
Remember
that
thou
magnifie
his
work
which
men
behold
.
Elihu
thought
it
to
be
Jobs
Duty
(
and
doubtless
it
was
so
)
to
magnifie
or
lift
up
the
name
of
God
even
under
afflictive
providences
,
to
exalt
God
when
God
cast
him
down
;
but
you
are
called
this
day
to
magnifie
the
work
of
God
in
comfortable
providences
,
and
to
lift
up
his
Name
,
whilst
he
is
lifting
you
up
in
Deliverances
,
and
chearful
providences
.
't
is
true
,
we
cannot
magnifie
any
work
of
God
by
making
any
addition
to
it
,
or
making
it
greater
than
it
is
;
but
we
should
magnifie
every
work
of
God
,
by
giving
it
it
s
full
dimensions
in
our
Considerations
of
it
,
and
suitable
affections
to
it
.
The
works
of
the
Lord
are
great
,
sought
out
of
all
them
that
have
pleasure
therein
,
Psal
.
111.2
.
We
then
magnifie
them
,
when
we
search
them
out
,
ponder
and
weigh
them
in
all
their
circumstances
,
and
this
must
needs
afford
singular
pleasure
to
a
sanctified
soul
.
Oh
't
is
sweet
to
trace
the
footsteps
of
God
along
those
pleasant
paths
of
Mercy
and
Salvation
,
wherein
he
hath
walked
towards
his
Church
,
or
our selves
in
particular
.
Two
things
invite
our
thoughts
to
dwell
upon
them
at
this
time
.
-
1.
What
makes
a
work
of
Mercy
truly
great
.
-
2.
What
is
that
suitable
sense
we
should
have
of
such
Works
.
1.
What
are
the
things
that
make
any
Work
of
Mercy
truly
great
?
Now
there
are
seven
Considerations
or
properties
of
a
work
of
Mercy
which
make
it
great
indeed
.
If
but
one
or
two
of
these
be
found
upon
such
a
work
,
it
deserves
the
name
of
great
,
but
if
there
be
a
concurrence
of
them
all
in
any
Work
of
God
,
as
there
is
in
that
work
which
we
celebrate
this
day
.
O
how
great
will
it
then
appear
!
(
1.
)
Then
doth
a
Work
of
Mercy
or
Deliverance
deserve
the
name
of
great
and
magnificent
,
when
it
involves
our
spiritual
as
well
as
our
Civil
and
Natural
Comforts
and
Enjoyments
in
it
,
and
rescues
our
Souls
as
well
as
our
Bodies
from
Ruine
and
Misery
.
Temporal
Mercies
have
their
value
,
't
is
no
small
Mercy
to
have
our
Estates
,
Liberties
,
and
lives
secured
from
Rapine
and
Violence
.
Deborah
celebrated
this
Mercy
in
her
Song
of
Praise
,
Judg
.
5.6
,
7
,
11.
In
the
dayes
of
Shamgar
the
son
of
Anath
,
in
the
dayes
of
Jael
;
the
high
wayes
were
unoccupied
,
and
the
Travellers
walked
through
by-wayes
.
The
inhabitants
of
the
Villages
ceased
in
Israel
,
untill
that
I
deborah
arose
,
that
I
arose
a
mother
in
Israel
.
They
that
are
delivered
from
the
noise
of
Archers
in
the
places
of
drawing
water
;
there
shall
they
rehearse
the
righteous
acts
of
the
Lord
,
even
the
righteous
acts
towards
the
inhabitants
of
his
villages
in
Israel
:
then
shall
the
people
of
the
Lord
go
down
to
the
gates
.
't
was
a
sad
time
in
Israel
,
when
they
were
barr'd
from
their
Fountains
,
and
forced
to
creep
through
By-wayes
and
Woods
by
Night
for
fear
of
the
Enemy
.
When
the
course
of
Justice
was
stopt
,
and
there
were
no
Judges
in
the
Gates
:
Therefore
the
People
are
here
excited
to
praise
the
Lord
for
their
Deliverance
from
these
Calamities
.
But
't
is
a
far
greater
Misery
to
be
cut
off
from
the
Wells
of
Salvation
,
barr'd
from
the
Springs
of
Ordinances
;
forced
to
creep
through
By
and
Obscure
wayes
to
get
bread
to
relieve
their
Souls
;
to
have
our
Teachers
driven
into
Corners
;
which
hath
been
the
Case
of
Gods
People
for
many
years
in
England
:
Now
,
to
be
delivered
from
such
Miseries
,
is
a
Mercy
above
all
value
.
Liberty
to
serve
the
Lord
without
fear
,
liberty
without
a
snare
or
hook
in
it
,
and
a
well
setled
durable
liberty
,
for
such
is
that
we
may
now
(
if
ever
)
promise
our selves
;
what
soul
can
dilate
it self
wide
enough
,
to
take
in
the
adequate
sense
of
such
a
Mercy
?
We
were
glad
of
Liberty
from
our
Enemies
,
when
we
sought
it
not
;
we
peaceably
and
thankfully
improv'd
it
,
though
just
Fears
and
Jealousies
much
darkned
the
Lustre
of
it
:
But
the
Lord
in
this
dispensation
of
his
Providence
will
I
hope
so
establish
the
just
Liberties
of
his
People
,
that
it
shall
never
be
in
the
power
of
violent
and
wicked
men
any
more
to
oppress
them
.
There
was
a
time
when
the
Witnesses
of
Christ
lay
dead
,
and
their
Enemies
rejoyced
over
them
;
the
Lord
hath
begun
to
revive
them
,
and
the
time
(
I
trust
)
,
even
the
appointed
time
is
at
hand
,
when
they
shall
hear
a
great
voice
from
heaven
(
jussu
Supremi
magistratus
,
saith
learned
Mede
)
saying
,
Come
up
hither
.
And
both
England
and
France
shall
rejoyce
together
in
their
Spiritual
as
well
as
Civil
Liberties
and
Mercies
.
What
Soul
that
loves
Jesus
Christ
in
sincerity
doth
not
feel
it self
chear'd
and
raised
in
proportion
to
the
Hopes
and
Evidences
it
hath
of
the
approach
of
so
great
and
desireable
a
Mercy
?
(
2
)
Then
is
any
work
of
Mercy
and
Deliverance
to
the
Church
deservedly
stiled
great
,
when
it
is
wrought
out
in
an
extraordinary
way
,
and
the
singer
of
God
is
evidently
seen
therein
.
Thus
it
was
with
Israel
in
their
Introduction
into
the
Land
of
Promise
,
Psal
.
44.3
.
For
they
got
not
the
land
in
possession
by
their
own
sword
,
neither
did
their
own
arm
save
them
;
but
thy
right
hand
,
and
thine
arm
,
and
the
light
of
thy
countenance
;
because
thou
hadst
a
favour
unto
them
.
It
was
not
by
the
strength
of
their
own
arm
,
or
the
length
of
their
own
Sword
that
they
subdued
and
conquer'd
;
no
,
it
was
a
smile
of
Providence
that
did
the
work
.
The
finger
of
God
in
Providence
appears
in
the
secret
influences
of
God
upon
the
spirits
of
men
,
infusing
Courage
into
the
hearts
of
some
,
and
sending
faintness
into
the
spirits
of
others
,
so
that
the
feeble
become
as
David
,
when
mean
while
the
men
of
might
cannot
find
their
hands
.
This
lifts
up
the
Wheels
above
the
Earth
,
as
Ezek
.
1.19
.
(
3.
)
The
sudden
production
of
Mercy
magnifies
it
.
Mercies
are
highly
to
be
prized
how
long
soever
we
wait
for
them
;
but
when
they
come
surprizingly
,
they
come
with
great
advantage
upon
us
,
and
have
for
that
,
the
more
ravishing
sweetness
in
them
,
Psal
.
126.1
,
2
,
3.
When
the
Lord
turned
again
the
captivity
of
Sion
,
we
were
like
them
that
dream
.
Then
was
our
mouth
filled
with
laughter
,
and
our
tongue
with
singing
;
then
said
they
among
the
heathen
,
the
Lord
hath
done
great
things
for
them
.
The
Lord
hath
done
great
things
for
us
,
whereof
we
are
glad
.
The
change
was
so
great
,
so
sudden
,
that
it
amazed
them
,
they
took
it
rather
for
a
Phantome
that
deluded
their
Senses
,
than
for
a
reality
.
The
deliverance
was
incredible
,
they
could
not
believe
themselves
to
be
delivered
,
when
they
really
were
delivered
.
They
fancied
when
they
came
to
Jerusalem
,
that
it
was
rather
a
pleasant
dream
of
Jerusalem
in
Babylon
;
than
so
indeed
.
Are
we
indeed
set
at
liberty
to
Worship
God
at
Jerusalem
?
or
are
we
mocked
with
a
dream
,
and
deluded
with
a
pleasant
Fancy
of
such
a
Mercy
?
So
again
we
read
,
Isa
.
66.8
,
9.
Who
hath
heara
such
a
thing
?
Who
hath
seen
such
things
?
shall
the
earth
be
made
to
bring
forth
in
one
day
?
or
shall
a
nation
be
born
at
once
?
For
assoon
as
Sion
travelled
she
brought
forth
her
children
.
What
,
Sow
and
Reap
in
the
same
day
!
The
birth
to
anticipate
the
pangs
of
Travail
!
Who
hath
seen
or
heard
such
things
saith
the
Prophet
?
Surely
England
hath
seen
it
this
day
.
Cardinal
Pool
once
abused
this
Scripture
in
his
Letter
to
Pope
Julius
the
third
,
applying
it
to
the
sudden
change
of
England
to
Popery
in
the
beginning
of
Queen
Maries
Reign
.
But
we
are
called
this
day
to
sanctifie
the
Name
of
God
in
a
work
of
Providence
,
wherein
the
Lord
hath
indeed
fulfilled
it
before
our
eyes
.
So
great
and
sudden
!
Great
and
marvellous
are
thy
works
,
O
Lord
God
Almighty
,
just
and
true
are
thy
wayes
,
O
thou
King
of
Saints
.
Generations
to
come
will
think
we
do
but
hyperbolize
,
when
they
shall
read
the
one
half
of
the
Wonders
of
our
dayes
.
(
4.
)
When
one
Mercy
is
an
introductive
leading
Mercy
to
many
more
,
that
are
greater
than
it self
;
that
Mercy
which
is
so
,
though
in
it self
it
were
never
so
small
;
well
deserves
the
Title
of
a
great
Mercy
;
and
may
we
not
judge
the
present
Mercy
to
be
such
?
In
the
rending
off
these
Kingdoms
from
Antichrist
,
the
tenth
part
of
the
great
City
is
visibly
fallen
.
Rome
hath
paid
her
Tenths
to
Christ
already
,
and
that
as
an
earnest
of
the
whole
,
which
is
shortly
to
fall
into
his
hands
.
Rome's
Glass
was
turned
up
by
Christ
more
than
1200
years
past
,
and
in
the
Judgment
of
very
many
Learned
and
Searching
men
,
is
now
almost
run
down
.
Antichrist
hath
lately
had
a
Triumph
,
and
said
,
I
sit
as
a
Queen
and
shall
not
see
widowhood
,
or
loss
of
children
any
more
.
The
Kings
of
the
Earth
have
given
{Îħβγδ}
their
force
of
Armes
,
and
power
of
Lawes
unto
the
Beast
.
But
the
Lord
hath
begun
to
shake
Heaven
and
Earth
,
that
the
things
which
are
made
may
be
shaken
down
,
and
so
to
ruin
him
by
the
same
means
he
first
arose
.
He
is
taking
to
himself
his
Power
and
Reign
,
that
the
Kingdom
and
dominion
under
the
whole
Heavens
may
be
the
Lords
,
and
that
work
of
Providence
which
we
celebrate
this
day
,
appears
to
me
a
great
step
towards
it
.
Call
it
Gad
,
for
a
Troop
follows
it
.
The
World
hath
found
,
and
shall
still
find
much
Truth
in
that
Observation
of
the
Learned
Dr.
Dr.
More's
Mystery
of
Godliness
lib
.
5.
cap
.
17.
Printed
Anno
1660.
More
,
I
am
not
ashamed
(
saith
he
)
to
profess
,
that
I
think
it
clear
out
of
the
Apocalyps
,
that
the
Scene
of
things
in
Christendom
,
will
in
a
short
time
be
very
much
changed
for
the
better
;
the
time
of
the
Churches
appearing
that
is
truly
Apostolical
both
in
Life
and
Doctrine
,
appears
by
the
computation
of
Prophesies
to
be
very
near
at
hand
,
when
the
Witnesses
shall
rise
,
and
the
Woman
come
out
of
the
Wilderness
,
and
the
Kingdoms
of
the
World
shall
be
the
Kingdoms
of
the
Lord
and
his
Christ
,
and
he
shall
reign
for
ever
and
ever
.
There
is
no
stability
to
be
expected
in
the
Kingdoms
of
Men
,
(
but
Vengeance
will
ever
and
anon
flow
in
upon
them
)
till
that
City
be
raised
whose
not
only
Foundation
is
laid
in
twelve
,
but
whose
Gates
,
Tribes
,
Angels
,
the
breadth
and
height
of
the
Wall
,
and
the
solid
continent
of
the
whole
City
,
are
nothing
else
but
a
replication
still
of
twelve
throughout
:
That
is
to
say
,
till
that
Church
appear
which
is
purely
Apostolical
in
Doctrine
and
Worship
.
England
is
said
to
be
the
first
Kingdom
that
received
the
Gospel
with
the
Countenance
of
Supream
Authority
.
This
was
its
Honour
,
and
to
be
the
first
that
breaks
off
from
Antichrist
will
be
as
great
an
Honour
as
the
former
.
The
rest
are
to
follow
in
their
order
.
O
what
a
leading
Mercy
is
the
mercy
of
this
Day
!
(
5.
)
Then
may
a
Work
of
God
be
stiled
great
and
magnificent
,
when
the
Lord
carries
it
on
through
great
Difficulties
and
seeming
Impossibilities
.
The
greater
the
difficulties
in
the
way
,
the
greater
must
the
mercy
be
when
it
arrives
to
us
through
them
all
.
Thus
came
the
Israelites
into
the
Land
of
Promise
,
Psal
.
66.12
.
Thou
causedst
men
to
ride
over
our
heads
;
we
went
through
sire
and
through
water
;
but
thou
broughtest
us
out
into
a
wealthy
place
.
To
pass
through
Fire
and
Water
,
is
a
Proverbial
Speech
,
noting
the
greatest
difficulties
and
deadly
dangers
.
Such
was
that
at
the
Red
Sea
,
a
deliverance
out
of
such
dangers
,
may
be
called
Life
out
of
Death
,
and
such
have
our
Deliverances
been
.
Our
Enemies
had
grasped
all
power
in
their
hands
;
and
were
full
of
considence
.
They
were
folden
together
as
Thorns
,
and
drunk
as
Drunkards
;
as
the
Prophet
expresses
it
,
Neh
.
1.10
.
Strong
Combinations
,
and
answerable
Confidence
and
Security
of
the
Event
;
but
when
the
time
of
Mercy
was
come
,
Armies
,
Navies
,
Counsels
,
Forreign
Confederates
,
and
all
give
way
to
the
design
of
Mercy
.
And
what
are
all
the
Mountains
before
Zerubabel
?
(
6.
)
That
which
exceedingly
greatens
a
Mercy
or
Deliverance
is
the
seasonableness
thereof
.
When
it
nicks
the
proper
Season
;
comes
in
the
most
opportune
time
;
Deut
.
32.36
.
The
Lord
shall
judg
his
people
,
and
repent
himself
for
his
servants
;
when
he
seeth
that
their
power
is
gone
,
and
that
there
is
none
shut
up
,
or
left
.
The
Lord
suffers
the
Danger
to
come
to
an
extremity
,
and
then
in
the
Mount
of
difficulties
and
streights
he
appears
.
If
deliverance
should
come
fooner
,
it
would
be
less
valued
,
and
if
later
,
it
would
come
too
late
for
our
comfort
.
He
is
a
God
of
Judgment
,
and
all
his
Works
are
made
beautiful
by
their
seasonableness
,
How
the
Case
stood
with
the
Protestant
Interest
in
Europe
,
when
God
began
to
stir
up
the
Spirits
of
the
Princes
to
commiserate
and
relieve
it
;
we
all
know
our
Enemies
looked
upon
us
as
their
sure
prey
,
and
we
could
not
but
look
upon
our selves
in
great
hazard
,
The
Lord
suffered
the
mischief
conceived
to
go
to
the
parturient
fulness
of
its
time
,
and
then
gave
it
a
miscarrying
Womb
.
Who
is
like
unto
the
Lord
?
and
what
works
are
like
his
Works
!
(
7.
)
In
a
word
,
then
is
a
work
of
Mercy
truely
great
,
when
it
brings
forth
invaluable
Blessings
at
a
cheap
rate
.
When
Enjoyments
and
Comforts
more
worth
than
our
lives
,
come
at
easie
rates
to
our
hands
.
You
read
,
Isa
.
9.5
.
Every
battel
of
the
Warrior
is
with
confused
noise
and
garments
roll'd
in
blood
.
War
is
terrible
and
costly
,
especially
Civil
Wars
.
When
a
Nation
like
a
Candle
lighted
at
both
ends
,
quickly
consumes
and
melts
down
in
the
middle
.
There
are
confused
noises
in
Battels
,
terrible
to
hear
.
The
thundering
of
Drums
,
and
sound
of
Trumpets
;
the
neighing
of
Horses
,
and
shouts
of
Armies
;
the
roaring
of
Cannons
,
the
Shrieks
and
Groans
of
dying
Men
;
these
are
confused
noises
indeed
,
and
yet
it
s
worth
enduring
all
this
to
hear
the
joyful
sound
of
the
Gospel
,
and
preserve
the
pure
Reformed
Religion
in
the
midst
of
us
:
't
were
better
part
with
our
Blood
than
the
Gospel
;
exhaust
our
Treasure
,
and
leave
our
Children
poor
,
than
devest
them
of
the
best
of
Blessings
,
and
leave
them
to
be
train'd
up
in
Idolatry
,
and
stretch
out
their
hands
to
a
strange
God
.
But
lo
what
hath
God
wrought
for
England
!
You
have
those
Mercies
that
have
cost
others
dear
,
and
they
have
cost
you
nothing
.
You
have
sold
your selves
for
nothing
,
and
are
redeemed
without
price
.
Your
God
hath
been
liberal
in
Mercy
,
but
sparing
of
Blood
.
Such
Mercies
,
so
many
Mercies
without
a
stroke
!
according
to
this
time
it
shall
be
said
,
What
hath
God
wrought
?
Thus
you
see
what
those
Mercies
are
wherein
God
shews
his
Greatness
.
Secondly
,
In
the
next
place
let
us
consider
what
that
sutable
sense
,
or
those
answerable
impressions
are
,
which
such
great
Mercies
call
for
.
Moses
in
the
Text
expresses
a
very
becoming
sense
of
the
great
things
God
had
begun
to
do
for
him
and
his
people
;
Oh
that
there
were
such
an
heart
in
us
this
day
.
Now
there
are
five
things
wherein
the
comely
behaviour
of
our
Souls
towards
God
under
great
Mercies
doth
consist
.
(
1.
)
In
our
Eying
the
Hand
of
God
in
the
Mercy
,
and
thankful
Ascriptions
of
all
the
Glory
and
Praise
to
his
Name
.
So
doth
Moses
in
the
Text
,
Thou
hast
begun
to
shew
thy
servant
thy
greatness
and
thy
mighty
hand
.
The
Israelites
were
a
great
Host
,
Six
Hundred
Thousand
Men
that
marched
out
of
Egypt
,
an
Army
sufficient
to
invade
and
subdue
a
far
greater
Country
than
Canaan
was
;
but
Moses
looks
off
from
them
and
ascribes
all
their
Successes
and
Victories
to
the
Hand
of
God
.
Not
my
mighty
host
,
but
thy
mighty
hand
.
God
affects
not
social
Glory
;
the
dividing
of
the
Praise
,
forfeits
the
Mercy
.
He
that
doth
all
in
us
and
for
us
,
expects
justly
the
Praise
and
Glory
of
all
from
us
.
Psal
.
115.1
.
Not
unto
us
,
not
unto
us
,
but
to
thy
name
give
glory
.
Here
's
a
double
Negative
,
and
no
more
than
need
;
for
there
is
double
danger
of
the
Creatures
invading
the
Rights
of
Heaven
,
and
sacrilegious
Usurpation
of
Gods
peculiar
Praise
.
Let
us
therefore
look
off
from
Armies
,
and
Navies
,
from
the
prudent
Conduct
and
Courage
of
Men
;
and
see
the
hand
of
God
in
all
the
great
and
marvellous
things
wrought
in
the
midst
of
us
this
day
.
(
2.
)
't
is
decorous
and
suitable
to
great
Mercies
,
to
have
our
hearts
filled
with
a
joy
and
chearfulness
answerable
to
them
.
Praise
is
comely
for
the
upright
.
As
it
would
be
our
sin
not
to
mourn
when
God
smites
and
rebukes
us
,
so
will
it
also
not
to
rejoyce
when
he
chears
and
comforts
us
.
't
is
not
our
Liberty
only
,
but
our
Duty
to
rejoyce
in
such
works
of
Mercy
as
these
are
,
Isa
.
65.18
.
But
be
ye
glad
and
rejoyce
for
ever
in
that
which
I
create
,
for
behold
I
create
Jerusalem
a
rejoycing
,
and
her
people
a
joy
.
Methinks
Joy
should
not
be
under
a
Christians
Command
,
when
he
sees
what
God
is
creating
for
Jerusalem
.
As
the
Morning
Stars
sang
together
,
and
all
the
Sons
of
God
shouted
for
joy
at
the
Creation
of
the
World
;
so
should
all
his
Sons
and
Daughters
sing
and
shout
at
this
new
Creation
,
of
the
new
Heavens
,
and
the
new
Earth
.
Mistake
not
here
,
I
call
you
not
to
rejoyce
in
the
Miseries
or
Calamities
that
are
come
upon
any
this
day
;
much
less
at
the
Calamities
of
our
late
Soveraign
.
He
that
searcheth
my
Heart
,
knows
I
commiserate
his
Condition
,
and
from
my
soul
desire
the
Lord
to
bless
his
Afflictions
to
his
Illumination
,
and
Eternal
Salvation
.
But
that
which
you
are
to
rejoyce
in
this
day
,
is
the
advancement
of
Christs
Interest
in
the
World
,
and
the
Salvation
of
his
Church
from
the
imminent
dangers
it
was
so
lately
under
;
and
the
prospect
the
Lord
now
gives
you
of
far
greater
mercies
to
his
People
,
than
ever
yet
they
enjoyed
.
These
are
the
proper
Objects
of
our
Rejoycing
.
(
3.
)
Then
have
we
a
becoming
sense
of
great
mercies
,
when
those
mercies
kindly
thaw
and
melt
our
hearts
into
Repentance
for
Sin
,
and
a
sense
of
our
great
unworthiness
of
them
.
When
we
abase
our selves
under
exalting
Providences
.
We
greatly
mistake
our selves
if
we
think
England
hath
obliged
God
to
be
thus
peculiarly
favourable
to
it
.
't
is
astonishing
to
think
,
that
a
Nation
so
swarming
with
Drunkards
,
Persecutors
,
Formalists
in
Religion
,
yea
,
Atheists
and
Scoffers
at
all
practical
and
serious
Piety
;
should
nevertheless
be
thus
favoured
,
delivered
and
exalted
in
mercy
above
all
the
Nations
round
about
us
.
I
know
God
hath
a
great
number
of
precious
and
upright
hearted
ones
in
England
,
that
have
sighed
and
cried
for
the
Abominations
committed
in
the
midst
thereof
;
but
so
far
are
they
from
arrogating
that
they
are
every
where
admiring
the
Goodness
of
God
in
unexpected
mercies
.
They
think
,
if
he
had
given
them
their
lives
for
a
prey
in
some
obscure
corner
of
the
World
,
he
had
done
more
for
them
than
they
could
justly
have
expected
.
Or
if
he
had
furnisht
them
with
a
sufficient
stock
of
Faith
and
Patience
to
stand
quietly
at
the
stake
,
and
have
glorified
him
in
the
midst
of
the
Flames
;
he
had
done
above
whatever
they
had
deserved
at
his
hands
:
but
to
be
delivered
from
all
those
Fears
,
to
sit
down
in
Peace
amidst
pure
Gospel
Ordinances
,
and
to
look
on
all
these
but
as
the
beginnings
of
Mercy
;
the
dawning
of
a
more
bright
and
glorious
day
,
than
ever
yet
this
sinful
Nation
enjoyed
:
this
I
say
is
melting
and
humbling
indeed
,
to
all
gracious
Spirits
.
't
is
a
lovely
sight
to
see
the
Tears
of
Repentance
overtaking
the
Tears
of
Joy
and
Thankfulness
;
Sighs
and
Blushes
for
Sin
,
mixed
with
Smiles
and
Rejoycings
in
Mercies
.
(
4.
)
Then
do
we
answer
the
voice
of
Mercy
and
discover
a
suitable
sense
of
it
,
when
it
strongly
obliges
us
to
new
Obedience
,
and
more
exactness
in
walking
with
God
for
time
to
come
.
We
find
an
excellent
Example
of
both
these
effects
of
Mercy
,
viz
:
Repentance
for
past
Sins
,
and
Resolutions
for
new
Obedience
,
in
the
79
Psal
.
8.
and
13.
ver
.
Remember
not
against
us
former
iniquities
,
saith
Asaph
,
that
was
the
frame
of
his
heart
as
to
past
sins
;
and
then
ver.
13.
as
to
the
future
,
if
he
would
let
the
sighing
of
the
Prisoners
to
come
before
him
,
and
deliver
those
that
were
appointed
to
dye
,
as
he
speaks
ver.
the
11th
.
Then
saith
he
,
We
thy
people
,
and
the
sheep
of
thy
pasture
will
give
thee
thanks
for
ever
,
we
will
shew
forth
thy
praise
to
all
generations
.
O
England
,
England
!
thy
God
this
Day
calls
thee
to
thy
Knees
,
though
it
be
thy
Day
of
Thanksgiving
,
and
rejoycing
.
He
expects
to
see
thy
Tears
upon
thy
Cheeks
this
day
for
thy
former
iniquities
,
and
that
thou
bind
thy self
to
thy
God
with
these
bonds
of
Mercy
;
never
to
return
any
more
to
Folly
.
't
is
not
Bells
and
Bonfires
,
but
Repentance
for
thy
past
Follies
,
and
new
Obedience
thy
God
looks
for
at
thy
hands
.
(
5.
)
Lastly
,
Then
do
we
act
becomingly
to
the
Mercies
of
God
,
when
Mercies
already
brought
forth
,
do
encourage
and
strengthen
our
faith
for
those
that
remain
still
in
the
Womb
of
the
Promises
.
So
it
was
with
Moses
in
my
Text
,
and
Oh
that
it
might
be
so
with
us
all
!
Our
greatest
and
best
mercies
are
yet
to
come
,
but
those
we
bless
God
for
this
Day
are
pledges
and
earnests
of
them
.
You
see
them
not
,
neither
did
you
see
these
you
are
now
praising
him
for
six
months
ago
;
hath
he
caused
these
Mercies
to
be
brought
forth
,
and
will
he
shut
up
the
Womb
?
hath
he
done
things
we
looked
not
for
,
and
shall
he
not
be
trusted
farther
than
we
can
see
?
Look
as
the
head
of
Leviathan
was
served
into
the
Israelites
Table
in
the
Wilderness
,
garnished
about
with
rich
Experiences
of
the
Goodness
and
Faithfulness
of
God
,
that
it
might
be
food
to
their
Faith
in
the
Wilderness
;
so
,
much
so
are
the
Mercies
and
Deliverances
of
this
day
to
be
improved
,
for
the
encouragement
of
Faith
for
further
and
future
Mercies
.
USE
.
The
Point
before
us
is
full
of
useful
Instructions
,
Cautions
and
Counsels
.
Time
will
permit
me
to
do
little
more
than
note
them
to
you
;
because
I
have
noted
to
you
another
point
of
Doctrine
which
should
I
omit
,
I
should
be
wanting
to
the
Duty
of
the
Day
,
and
your
just
Expectations
.
Well
then
,
are
the
Mercies
of
God
already
perform'd
,
such
great
things
?
and
do
they
require
such
a
sense
and
improvement
of
them
from
us
?
then
(
1.
)
Take
heed
of
slighting
and
despising
the
Mercies
of
God
which
are
fresh
and
new
before
your
eyes
this
day
.
There
are
two
special
duties
incumbent
on
all
the
Saints
under
such
Mercies
as
these
,
viz.
to
observe
the
Lords
Providences
,
and
to
resound
his
praises
,
and
the
later
depends
upon
the
former
.
God
can
have
no
praise
,
we
can
have
no
comfort
from
unobserved
or
slighted
mercies
.
Whoso
is
wise
and
will
observe
these
things
,
even
they
shall
understand
the
loving
kindness
of
the
Lord
,
Psal
.
107.43
.
A
due
observation
of
mercies
will
beget
a
due
valuation
of
them
;
and
a
due
valuation
of
mercies
is
fundamental
to
all
your
praises
of
God
for
them
.
Look
upon
the
other
side
of
these
Providences
,
and
think
what
your
Condition
had
been
,
if
the
Lord
had
left
your
Estates
,
Liberties
and
Lives
to
the
Wills
and
Mercies
of
your
Enemies
.
(
2.
)
Cheek
all
Atheistical
thoughts
from
this
experiment
of
the
hand
of
God
so
seasonably
interposing
betwixt
his
People
and
their
Destruction
.
Verily
there
is
a
God
that
judgeth
in
the
Earth
.
Psal
.
58.11
.
Great
and
notorious
is
the
Atheism
of
these
times
,
all
serious
Piety
is
hiss'd
and
ridicul'd
;
the
very
existence
of
a
Deity
,
and
Divine
Providence
is
denied
by
some
.
But
would
men
open
their
eyes
and
observe
what
is
before
them
this
day
,
they
would
see
enough
to
stop
the
mouth
of
Atheism
for
ever
.
Are
these
Fortuitous
Hitts
and
Accidents
,
or
the
effects
and
productions
of
the
wise
and
steddy
Counsels
of
Heaven
?
The
Lord
is
known
by
the
Judgments
that
he
executeth
.
But
when
his
hand
is
lifted
up
men
will
not
see
.
't
is
convincingly
clear
the
Hand
of
God
,
not
the
Power
or
Policy
of
Men
hath
done
this
.
There
was
no
power
in
the
prevailing
part
,
but
what
might
with
far
greater
probability
be
repelled
by
the
other
;
no
Policy
in
the
one
,
but
as
great
to
countermine
it
in
the
other
.
But
you
see
the
Race
is
not
to
the
swift
,
nor
the
Battel
to
the
strong
;
't
is
the
hand
of
God
that
disposeth
these
great
Events
.
(
3.
)
Be
not
stagger'd
if
you
should
see
new
difficulties
arising
in
the
way
of
Mercy
,
after
God
hath
begun
to
do
great
things
for
his
people
.
Moses
and
his
People
encounter'd
many
such
difficulties
after
God
had
lifted
up
his
hand
in
great
signs
and
Wonders
for
them
in
Egypt
:
and
so
may
we
,
even
when
we
are
come
upon
the
borders
of
our
expected
Mercies
.
Let
us
not
say
we
shall
never
be
moved
more
;
there
is
a
great
deal
of
filthiness
in
England
yet
unpurged
,
many
Corruptions
to
be
removed
;
and
let
us
not
expect
much
tranquillity
till
God
have
refined
and
reformed
us
.
When
the
morbifique
matter
is
not
well
purged
out
of
the
Body
Natural
or
Politick
,
there
is
danger
of
a
Recidivation
,
or
Relapse
into
the
old
Disease
,
which
God
in
mercy
prevent
.
Former
sins
and
follies
will
cast
us
back
into
former
straights
and
miseries
.
O
let
us
not
return
again
to
Folly
.
We
are
now
upon
Trial
once
more
how
we
will
carry
it
under
Mercies
and
Liberties
,
God
forbid
so
great
an
opportunity
as
this
for
settling
the
Church
and
State
upon
the
true
Foundations
of
Liberty
and
Prosperity
should
be
lost
.
Take
heed
of
a
discontented
Spirit
under
Gracious
Providences
lest
you
provoke
the
Lord
to
turn
his
hand
of
Judgment
again
upon
you
.
Who
could
have
thought
that
Jonah
who
was
so
lately
in
the
Whales
Belly
,
called
the
Belly
of
Hell
;
and
was
so
greatly
humbled
there
,
and
so
miraculously
and
graciously
delivered
thence
,
should
presently
fall
into
a
pet
of
discontent
with
God
,
and
that
for
a
Trifle
,
the
withering
of
a
Gourd
?
Yea
,
and
which
was
worse
,
for
his
Mercy
to
others
.
Oh
,
we
know
not
what
manner
of
Spirits
we
are
of
.
The
greatest
Mercies
and
Deliverances
do
not
long
please
us
,
unless
our
little
by-interests
be
gratified
.
(
4.
)
Let
England
now
study
to
do
great
things
for
God
,
who
hath
impressed
his
greatness
upon
the
Mercies
it
enjoyes
this
day
.
O
England
,
God
hath
done
great
things
for
thee
;
saved
thee
with
a
great
Salvation
;
and
he
expects
returns
from
thee
suitable
to
thy
great
mercies
and
obligations
.
Let
me
say
to
thee
,
as
Elihu
to
Job
,
Chap.
36.2
.
Suffer
me
a
little
,
and
I
will
shew
thee
that
I
have
yet
to
speak
on
Gods
behalf
.
(
1
)
A
National
Reformation
is
now
expected
by
the
Lord
,
he
hath
strongly
obliged
us
to
it
this
day
by
so
glorious
and
unparallel'd
a
National
Salvation
.
't
is
our
reproach
that
a
Land
of
Ministers
,
a
Land
of
Bibles
,
a
Land
of
peculiar
Mercies
;
should
be
a
Land
swarming
in
every
part
of
it
with
prophane
Swearers
,
filthy
Adulterers
,
beastly
Drunkards
,
and
Heavendaring
Atheists
.
Do
we
thus
requite
the
Lord
,
Oh
foolish
People
and
unwise
?
thy
God
,
O
England
is
pleading
with
thee
this
day
by
the
voice
of
mercy
,
drawing
thee
out
of
these
puddles
and
pollutions
by
the
Cords
of
Love
,
whilst
he
is
pleading
against
the
same
sins
in
the
Nations
round
about
thee
by
Fire
and
Sword
.
He
hath
now
set
upon
thy
Throne
a
great
Example
of
Vertue
,
to
correct
thy
Lewdness
,
and
effect
thy
Reformation
.
O
England
,
wilt
thou
not
be
made
clean
?
When
shall
it
once
be
?
When
,
if
not
now
,
under
such
strong
inducements
,
and
signal
advantages
?
(
2
)
The
loosing
of
every
yoke
,
and
undoing
of
every
heavy
burden
is
now
expected
from
thee
.
God
hath
loosed
the
Yoke
of
Popery
from
our
Necks
,
which
neither
we
nor
our
Fathers
could
bear
;
and
God
forbid
we
should
lay
any
other
yoke
upon
our
brethrens
Necks
,
than
what
Jesus
Christ
hath
laid
by
his
plain
Commands
upon
all
his
Disciples
;
or
make
any
thing
a
term
or
condition
of
Communion
,
which
himself
hath
not
made
so
.
O
let
the
Groans
and
Cryes
of
oppressed
Consciences
be
heard
no
more
from
hence-forth
in
England
.
Did
not
the
Lord
lately
shake
the
Rod
of
our
common
Enemies
over
us
all
?
Had
we
not
an
Ecclesiastical
Court
erected
among
us
which
made
those
to
tremble
,
at
whose
Bars
others
had
trembled
.
If
our
God
have
been
so
good
to
us
,
beyond
all
Examples
or
Expectations
to
deliver
us
from
our
Fears
and
Dangers
;
surely
he
expects
that
those
who
have
found
mercy
,
should
be
ready
to
shew
mercy
,
else
we
must
expect
he
will
make
good
his
threatning
against
us
,
James
2.13
.
He
shall
have
judgment
without
mercy
that
shewed
no
mercy
;
or
unmerciful
Judgment
,
as
{Îħβγδ}
may
be
rendered
;
and
the
Instruments
and
Executioners
of
his
Judgments
are
not
so
far
off
,
but
he
can
quickly
hiss
for
them
again
,
if
we
answer
not
the
voice
and
call
of
Mercy
.
(
3
)
An
hearty
and
lasting
Union
amongst
all
that
fear
God
is
now
justly
expected
from
us
.
I
never
expect
Union
and
Coalition
betwixt
the
Godly
and
Ungodly
,
't
will
be
as
much
as
I
can
expect
to
see
the
wickedness
of
men
restrain'd
and
curb'd
by
good
Laws
that
they
persecute
not
;
but
renewing
Grace
must
change
their
hearts
and
destroy
their
inbred
Enmity
,
before
they
close
with
the
people
of
God
in
Love
.
Nor
do
I
think
supercilious
Pharisees
or
superstitious
Bigots
will
inwardly
,
and
heartily
affect
the
sincere
and
spiritual
Servants
of
Christ
;
't
will
be
a
mercy
they
cannot
afflict
,
whom
they
do
not
affect
:
but
I
should
hope
that
in
such
a
time
as
this
,
all
that
love
the
Lord
Jesus
in
sincerity
,
and
are
animated
by
the
same
Spirit
of
Grace
and
Adoption
,
should
now
every
where
depose
their
Wrath
,
compose
their
little
differences
;
and
that
their
hearts
be
now
melted
in
the
sense
of
these
great
and
common
Salvations
,
into
more
love
and
union
than
ever
.
Such
returns
as
these
,
will
be
pleasing
to
the
Lord
,
and
the
only
methods
of
lengthening
out
England's
Tranquillity
.
And
though
my
Infirmities
as
well
as
Age
cut
off
my
expectations
of
being
much
longer
serviceable
,
or
of
enjoying
long
the
mercies
God
is
preparing
for
his
People
;
yet
I
should
account
it
an
extraordinary
mercy
to
see
these
beginnings
of
mercy
well
improved
in
order
to
those
greater
and
better
ones
.
Which
brings
me
to
the
last
Observation
,
which
next
comes
to
be
opened
and
applied
,
viz.
Observ
.
That
the
beginnings
of
Mercy
and
Deliverance
to
the
Church
,
are
convertible
into
so
many
Arguments
,
and
Pleas
in
Prayer
for
the
Perfection
,
and
Consummation
thereof
.
The
Point
lies
clear
and
obvious
in
the
Text
:
to
open
it
let
us
consider
,
-
1.
What
the
Mercies
were
which
are
here
called
the
beginnings
of
Mercy
?
-
2.
What
the
greater
Mercies
were
,
he
expected
beyond
Jordan
?
-
3.
How
the
former
strengthen
Faith
in
Prayer
for
the
latter
?
-
4.
Why
the
compleating
of
Mercies
begun
is
so
desireable
to
the
Saints
?
1.
What
those
mercies
were
which
are
here
called
the
beginnings
of
Mercy
?
and
they
were
great
and
manifold
:
in
this
Catalogue
are
to
be
placed
all
the
mercies
they
had
received
for
forty
years
,
from
the
day
they
came
out
of
Egypt
,
unto
this
great
deliverance
at
Edrei
inclusively
.
(
1.
)
God
began
to
shew
his
great
Power
in
their
wonderful
Deliverance
out
of
Egypt
,
with
mighty
Signs
,
and
an
out-stretched
Arm.
This
Deliverance
from
Egypt
was
a
Pattern
or
Model
of
the
future
Deliverances
of
his
Churches
in
New
Testament
days
.
Micah
7.15
.
According
to
the
days
of
thy
coming
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
,
will
I
shew
unto
him
marvellous
things
.
Which
seemeth
to
have
Relation
to
the
time
of
the
Restitution
,
and
saving
of
all
Israel
.
After
the
manner
of
Egypt
also
hath
God
begun
to
save
the
Gentile
Churches
from
Rome
,
which
is
Spiritually
called
Egypt
,
Rev.
11.8
.
And
this
begun
Deliverance
from
the
Mystical
is
greater
than
that
from
Literal
Egypt
,
and
so
much
greater
,
by
how
much
Spiritual
Bondage
and
Slavery
of
mens
Souls
,
is
worse
than
that
on
their
bodies
,
the
hand
of
God
was
evidently
seen
in
that
,
and
is
no
less
admirable
in
this
.
The
Wonders
of
the
Reformation
are
like
those
in
Egypt
,
wrought
out
by
the
mighty
Hand
and
Power
of
God
.
(
2.
)
The
Hand
and
Power
of
God
was
seen
in
making
provision
for
them
in
all
their
Wilderness-Streights
,
after
they
came
out
of
Egypt
.
There
were
no
Tilled
Fields
,
or
Barns
,
no
Storehouses
in
the
Wilderness
,
nor
Shops
to
furnish
them
with
Cloathes
for
forty
years
in
the
Desart
.
Yet
God
took
care
to
sustain
them
.
't
is
said
Nehem
.
9.21
.
Forty
years
didst
thou
sustain
them
in
the
wilderness
,
so
that
they
lacked
nothing
,
their
cloathes
waxed
not
old
,
and
their
feet
swelled
not
.
And
certainly
it
would
furnish
an
admirable
History
of
Providence
,
if
the
instances
of
God's
Care
over
his
poor
scattered
persecuted
Saints
were
collected
,
and
how
the
Lord
hath
sustain'd
them
from
the
beginning
of
the
Reformation
,
though
none
were
suffered
to
buy
or
sell
that
received
not
the
Mark
of
the
beast
in
their
Foreheads
,
or
right
hands
.
Rev.
13.17
.
their
Enemies
would
have
starved
them
,
but
their
God
hath
wonderfully
provided
for
them
.
(
3.
)
The
Lord
frustrated
all
the
Plots
of
their
Enemies
to
destroy
them
,
and
there
was
no
Enchantment
against
Jacob
,
nor
Divination
against
Israel
.
Remember
,
O
my
people
(
saith
God
)
what
Balack
King
of
Moab
consulted
,
and
what
Balaam
the
Son
of
Beor
answered
him
from
Shittim
unto
Gilgal
;
that
ye
may
know
the
righteousness
of
the
Lord
.
They
built
many
Altars
,
and
offered
many
Sacrifices
,
what
would
they
not
have
done
,
to
have
gotten
but
a
word
or
two
out
of
God's
mouth
against
his
People
?
but
their
God
was
true
and
faithful
to
them
,
and
would
not
hearken
to
Baalam's
insinuations
against
them
.
There
have
been
Plots
upon
Plots
to
destroy
the
begun
Reformation
.
Rome
and
Hell
have
consulted
our
Destruction
,
as
they
did
theirs
,
but
to
no
purpose
.
(
4.
)
The
Lord
discomfited
and
defeated
the
open
Force
as
well
as
the
secret
Treachery
of
their
Enemies
,
and
no
Weapon
formed
against
them
ever
prospered
.
The
Kings
,
several
Kings
by
whose
lands
they
travelled
towards
Canaan
,
fell
upon
them
in
their
way
,
but
still
to
their
own
cost
,
they
forfeited
their
Lives
and
Lands
by
their
quarrel
with
Israel
.
And
now
the
last
of
those
Kings
and
Kingdoms
that
opposed
their
passage
,
is
fallen
into
the
hands
of
Israel
:
These
were
the
Mercies
wherein
God
had
begun
to
show
his
Greatness
to
Moses
and
his
People
,
and
after
the
manner
of
Egypt
,
unto
us
also
.
2.
But
what
were
the
greater
Mercies
he
expected
beyond
Jordan
,
which
he
so
vehemently
desires
to
see
?
and
in
comparison
wherewith
he
stiles
all
these
great
things
but
the
beginnings
of
Mercy
?
Certainly
Moses
expected
better
things
than
these
,
as
great
and
glorious
as
they
were
,
and
these
were
(
1.
)
The
full
and
free
Enjoyment
of
all
God's
Ordinances
which
the
people
had
not
enjoyed
for
Forty
Years
before
.
All
that
were
born
by
the
way
were
not
Circumcised
,
Jos
.
5.5
.
and
for
the
Passeover
we
find
but
three
of
them
celebrated
all
that
space
,
the
first
in
Egypt
,
Exod
.
12.
the
second
at
Mount
Sinai
,
Numb
.
9.
the
third
at
Gilgal
in
Joshuah's
time
,
Jos
.
5.10
.
and
as
for
their
other
Sacrifices
and
Offerings
appointed
by
the
Lord
,
they
were
either
omitted
,
or
very
disorderly
performed
,
which
because
of
their
many
troubles
,
and
frequent
removes
,
they
could
not
enjoy
;
and
when
they
did
,
they
were
not
performed
as
he
required
,
which
the
Lord
smartly
rebuked
them
for
,
Amos
5.25
.
Have
ye
offered
unto
me
sacrifices
and
offerings
in
the
wilderness
forty
years
,
O
house
of
Israel
?
No
they
had
not
,
at
least
not
in
the
due
order
,
as
God
required
.
But
when
they
should
arrive
to
a
settled
condition
in
Canaan
,
then
the
Ordinances
of
God
should
be
more
frequently
enjoyed
,
and
that
after
the
due
Order
,
for
so
Moses
had
told
them
,
Deut.
12.8
,
9.
Ye
shall
not
do
after
all
the
things
that
we
do
here
this
day
,
every
man
whatsoever
is
right
in
his
own
eyes
;
for
ye
are
not
as
yet
come
to
the
rest
,
and
to
the
inheritance
which
the
Lord
your
God
giveth
you
.
When
they
should
be
settled
in
Canaan
,
and
the
Ark
find
rest
,
Moses
knew
that
all
things
should
then
be
reduced
to
the
Rule
and
Pattern
God
had
given
them
.
And
truly
nothing
is
more
beautiful
,
more
desireable
in
the
eyes
of
the
Saints
.
For
so
much
of
God's
Order
as
is
found
in
his
Worship
,
so
much
of
his
Presence
and
Blessing
may
be
expected
,
and
no
more
.
And
as
he
expected
more
purity
in
Ordinances
,
so
(
2.
)
Rest
and
Peace
was
expected
in
Canaan
,
a
Mercy
the
People
had
long
wanted
.
The
Ark
had
been
ambulatory
a
long
time
,
removing
now
here
,
now
there
:
but
in
the
Temple
it
was
to
find
rest
.
Therefore
you
read
in
Psal
.
132.8
.
the
Temple
called
the
place
of
rest
;
Arise
O
Lord
into
thy
rest
,
thou
and
the
Ark
of
thy
strength
,
because
there
it
was
to
have
a
fixed
abode
.
And
as
the
Ark
was
there
to
find
a
place
of
rest
,
so
the
people
also
,
who
instead
of
Tents
,
should
now
be
placed
in
Towns
and
Cities
.
(
3.
)
But
especially
that
which
Moses
desired
to
see
in
Canaan
,
was
the
fulfilling
and
accomplishment
of
the
promises
of
God
made
to
the
Patriarchs
,
in
the
Faith
and
Comfort
whereof
they
lived
and
died
.
This
Priviledge
Joshuah
enjoyed
,
Chap.
23.14
.
Not
one
thing
hath
failed
,
all
are
come
to
pass
.
O
what
a
lovely
and
desireable
sight
was
this
?
But
in
these
latter
dayes
,
we
for
,
whom
better
things
are
provided
look
for
greater
Mercies
,
than
Moses
and
the
people
could
expect
in
Canaan
.
For
we
according
to
the
Promises
expect
,
(
1.
)
An
abundant
increase
of
the
Church
,
both
extensively
,
in
the
number
of
Converts
;
and
intensively
,
in
the
power
of
Religion
.
The
best
Ministers
every
where
complain
with
the
Prophet
,
that
they
labour
in
vain
,
and
spend
their
strength
for
nought
.
They
now
and
then
at
best
hear
but
of
a
single
Soul
wrought
upon
;
but
the
time
will
come
,
when
they
shall
not
fish
with
Angle-Rods
,
but
spread
out
their
Nets
,
and
inclose
multitudes
.
According
to
that
glorious
promise
,
Ezek
.
47.10
.
and
as
to
the
intensive
increase
of
the
Church
in
the
Spirit
and
Power
of
Godliness
,
we
expect
to
see
a
Generation
of
more
Spiritual
,
Active
,
and
Lively
Christians
to
spring
up
.
Such
as
shall
far
excel
those
of
this
drowsie
,
lukewarm
Generation
,
according
to
that
promise
:
Isa
.
60.21
.
Thy
people
also
shall
be
all
righteous
.
(
2.
)
Greater
peace
and
quietness
from
persecuting
Enemies
,
is
yet
to
be
expected
.
The
poor
Church
hath
been
afflicted
,
and
tossed
with
Tempests
.
Persecutors
have
broken
in
ever
and
anon
upon
it
,
and
made
havock
of
it
;
a
tender
Conscience
hath
cast
men
upon
great
difficulties
to
preserve
it
,
but
the
dayes
are
coming
when
God
will
give
his
Churches
rest
,
either
by
the
Conversion
,
or
restraint
of
all
its
Enemies
:
the
wolf
shall
lye
down
with
the
lamb
.
Antipathies
shall
be
deposed
,
Isa
.
11.6
.
not
a
pricking
Briar
or
grieving
Thorn
,
that
shall
not
be
rooted
up
,
Ezek
.
28.24
.
Surely
this
is
a
sweet
and
desireable
mercy
to
the
weary
Saints
,
and
yet
a
far
sweeter
mercy
than
that
is
to
be
expected
,
viz.
(
3.
)
The
pouring
out
of
the
Spirit
of
Unity
upon
the
people
of
God
to
consolidate
and
strengthen
the
poor
dilacerated
Church
.
For
the
divisions
of
Reuben
,
there
have
been
great
thoughts
of
heart
.
Our
Divisions
have
darkned
the
lustre
of
Religion
,
imbittered
and
spoiled
the
Communion
of
Saints
,
prejudiced
the
World
,
and
obstructed
Conversion
.
But
God
will
melt
the
Hearts
of
the
Saints
into
one
,
Jer
.
32.39
.
They
shall
have
one
Heart
,
and
one
way
,
and
serve
the
Lord
with
one
consent
.
Then
shall
Religion
shine
in
its
Native
Glory
.
One
reason
of
our
justlings
one
against
another
hath
been
the
darkness
that
hath
been
upon
us
all
.
But
this
darkness
shall
break
up
:
for
(
4.
)
We
expect
a
more
Spiritual
and
Excellent
Ministry
than
the
Church
for
many
years
hath
enjoyed
;
Jer
.
3.15
.
I
will
give
you
Pastors
according
to
mine
heart
,
which
shall
feed
you
with
knowledge
,
and
understanding
.
't
is
a
sore
plague
and
judgement
upon
the
World
,
when
men
shall
be
set
over
the
people
,
that
are
ignorant
of
Regeneration
,
Strangers
and
Enemies
to
practical
Holiness
;
Men
that
break
their
prophane
Jests
upon
the
very
Spirit
of
Prayer
.
but
these
unclean
Spirits
shall
pass
out
of
the
Land
,
Zech
.
13.2
.
O
what
a
good
riddance
will
this
be
!
When
God
shall
set
up
in
their
room
laborious
faithful
and
godly
Ministers
,
full
of
experimental
knowledge
of
Christ
.
Watchmen
that
shall
see
eye
to
eye
,
as
he
speaks
Isa
.
52.8
.
Then
shall
we
see
another
most
desireable
and
inestimable
Mercy
perform'd
to
the
Church
,
beyond
all
it
hath
enjoyed
since
the
primitive
dayes
,
namely
,
(
5.
)
The
purity
of
Ordinances
and
Officers
in
the
Church
,
the
whole
Worship
and
Oeconomy
of
the
Church
measured
by
the
Scripture
Reed
,
according
to
Rev.
11.1
,
2.
and
Ezek
.
43.11
.
all
reduced
to
the
pure
primitive
Rule
and
Standard
,
which
will
discover
and
correct
the
oblique
and
corruptive
superadditions
of
men
.
Things
under
which
men
of
tender
Consciences
,
and
such
as
tremble
at
the
Word
,
in
all
Ages
have
groaned
.
And
then
will
the
Ordinances
of
God
shine
forth
in
their
Beauty
,
and
be
mighty
in
power
and
efficacy
.
Especially
when
(
6.
)
There
shall
be
a
more
eminent
presence
of
God
among
his
People
.
For
so
it
is
promised
,
Ezek
.
48.
ult
.
And
the
name
of
the
City
(
viz.
the
measured
regulated
Church
)
from
that
day
shall
be
the
Lord
is
there
.
This
is
the
true
Glory
of
the
Church
;
this
makes
the
new
Heavens
and
the
new
Earth
,
which
according
to
his
Promise
we
look
for
,
and
the
great
and
marvellous
things
our
Eyes
behold
this
day
are
the
beginnings
and
introductions
to
it
;
which
brings
us
to
the
third
General
Head
,
namely
,
(
3.
)
What
influence
these
begun
works
of
God
have
to
strengthen
and
encourage
our
souls
in
Prayer
for
these
greater
and
more
perfect
Mercies
!
and
this
they
do
upon
a
threefold
account
.
(
1.
)
As
these
begun
introductive
works
of
Mercy
are
indications
and
signs
that
the
time
of
Mercy
,
even
the
set
time
is
come
.
There
is
an
appointed
or
set
time
for
the
Churches
Deliverance
now
,
as
well
as
for
theirs
out
of
Egypt
;
that
was
called
the
time
of
the
promise
,
Acts
7.17
.
Deliverance
can
neither
come
before
it
,
nor
will
it
linger
,
when
that
time
is
fully
come
.
Promises
like
a
pregnant
woman
,
have
their
appointed
Months
,
Hab
.
2.3
.
Their
set
and
appointed
time
,
Psal
.
102.13
.
Now
,
when
we
behold
such
things
done
,
and
doing
in
the
World
;
as
are
at
this
day
before
our
eyes
,
we
may
rationally
conclude
the
time
of
Mercy
even
the
set
time
is
near
;
as
our
Saviour
speaks
,
Mat
.
24.32
,
33.
Learn
a
parable
of
the
figtree
,
when
his
branch
is
yet
tender
,
and
putteth
forth
leaves
,
ye
know
that
Summer
is
nigh
:
so
likewise
ye
,
when
ye
shall
see
all
these
things
,
know
that
it
is
near
;
even
at
the
door
.
Now
,
it
is
a
singular
encouragement
in
Prayer
,
when
we
know
,
or
can
but
probably
conjecture
that
the
time
is
near
for
the
accomplishment
and
performance
of
those
very
promised
Mercies
we
pray
for
.
As
we
see
in
Daniel
,
Chap.
9.2
,
3.
when
Daniel
understood
by
searching
and
studying
the
Sacred
Records
,
such
Prophesies
as
that
Jer
.
25.11
,
12.
that
the
time
foreset
was
near
at
an
end
,
then
he
set
himself
with
extraordinary
fervency
to
Prayer
.
And
do
not
the
generality
of
learned
and
good
men
agree
,
that
the
set
time
for
Romes
destruction
is
now
near
,
even
at
the
door
?
't
is
near
1260
years
since
Christ
turned
up
her
Glass
,
and
you
see
this
day
all
things
working
towards
the
accomplishment
of
the
written
Word
.
This
cannot
but
be
a
strong
encouragement
to
seek
God
by
Prayer
for
the
full
accomplishment
of
what
is
so
near
us
.
(
2.
)
God
hath
ordered
the
Deliverances
and
Mercies
of
his
Church
to
be
birthed
out
by
the
Cries
and
Prayers
of
his
People
.
When
therefore
Mercies
are
come
to
the
Birth
,
't
is
a
special
season
,
and
singular
encouragement
to
Prayer
.
Ezek
.
36.36
,
37.
I
the
Lord
plant
that
that
was
destroyed
,
I
have
spoken
it
,
and
I
will
do
it
,
thus
saith
the
Lord
God
,
yet
for
this
will
I
be
enquired
of
by
the
house
of
Israel
,
to
do
it
for
them
.
So
again
in
Jer
.
29.11
,
12.
I
know
the
thoughts
that
I
think
towards
you
,
saith
the
Lord
,
thoughts
of
peace
,
and
not
of
evil
;
to
give
you
an
expected
end
.
Then
shall
ye
call
upon
me
,
and
ye
shall
go
and
pray
unto
me
;
and
I
will
hearken
unto
you
.
In
both
these
places
,
you
see
God
will
have
Prayer
to
assist
the
Birth
of
Mercy
;
and
never
is
any
Mercy
so
sweet
,
as
when
Prayer
comes
betwixt
our
Dangers
and
Deliverances
;
our
wants
,
and
supplies
.
Hence
it
was
that
Hezekiah
sent
that
seasonable
Message
to
the
Prophet
Isaiah
,
2
King
.
19.3
.
Lift
up
a
cry
for
the
remnant
that
is
left
,
for
the
Children
are
come
to
the
birth
,
and
there
is
no
strength
to
bring
forth
.
If
ever
men
will
strive
with
God
to
purpose
in
Prayer
,
't
is
when
they
perceive
the
greatest
Mercies
are
at
the
Birth
,
and
Prayer
is
the
Midwife
to
bring
it
forth
.
(
3.
)
When
God
hath
begun
a
work
of
Mercy
,
it
gives
singular
encouragement
to
Prayer
,
because
that
time
is
the
time
of
finding
a
proper
and
acceptable
Season
;
as
it
is
Psal
.
32.6
.
For
this
shall
every
one
that
is
godly
pray
unto
thee
,
in
a
time
when
thou
mayest
be
found
.
Or
in
a
time
of
finding
.
Courtiers
who
have
great
Requests
to
make
to
Kings
,
do
carefully
observe
their
mollissima
fandi
tempora
,
as
they
call
them
;
their
convenient
seasons
when
they
find
the
King
most
propense
and
inclinable
to
Acts
of
Grace
.
That
which
is
in
motion
,
is
the
more
easily
moved
.
God
is
now
in
the
way
of
Mercy
.
His
Goodness
is
moving
spontaneously
towards
us
,
and
if
ever
Prayer
be
like
to
speed
and
prevail
,
now
is
the
time
.
And
in
the
last
place
.
(
4.
)
Manifold
and
weighty
are
the
Reasons
and
Motives
that
should
fully
engage
the
most
fervent
desires
and
Prayers
of
all
the
Saints
to
see
the
full
Deliverance
of
Sion
;
and
to
pass
over
Jordan
,
to
behold
that
goodly
Mountain
and
Lebanon
.
I
mean
those
six
glorious
Mercies
and
Priviledges
before-mentioned
.
First
,
The
Saints
Love
to
Christ
makes
it
above
measure
desireable
to
them
.
Nothing
is
more
dear
and
precious
to
a
Christian
,
than
the
Glory
and
Interest
of
Christ
;
and
answerable
to
the
strength
of
their
Love
,
is
the
fervor
of
their
Desires
.
't
is
said
Psal
.
102.16
.
When
the
Lord
shall
build
up
Sion
,
he
shall
appear
in
his
glory
.
Whilst
the
Church
groans
under
Antichrist
,
the
Glory
of
Jesus
Christ
is
darkned
and
much
eclipsed
in
the
World
.
It
hath
been
the
chief
part
of
the
Saints
Sufferings
to
see
his
Ordinances
polluted
,
and
the
Rights
of
Heaven
invaded
by
the
Usurpations
of
Men
;
this
is
it
that
hath
cost
them
more
sorrow
of
Heart
than
their
personal
Sufferings
have
done
.
But
to
see
the
accomplishment
of
that
Prophesie
,
Rev.
11.19
.
what
will
it
be
,
but
as
life
from
the
dead
?
And
the
Temple
of
God
was
opened
in
Heaven
,
and
there
was
seen
in
his
Temple
the
Ark
of
his
Testament
,
&c.
as
it
was
an
exceeding
joy
to
the
Godly
in
Israel
,
when
good
Josiah
came
to
the
Crown
,
to
see
the
Temple
opened
,
which
had
been
neglected
in
the
dayes
of
his
predecessors
Manasseh
and
Amon
,
in
whose
Reigns
the
Book
of
the
Law
had
lain
in
the
rubbish
,
but
now
the
worship
of
God
was
restored
;
so
it
cannot
but
ravish
a
gracious
heart
with
singular
delight
and
joy
,
to
see
the
pure
Primitive
Worship
of
God
restored
to
its
first
Purity
and
Glory
:
And
the
more
any
man
is
sanctified
,
the
more
he
is
inflamed
with
desires
after
it
,
because
the
Glory
of
Christ
is
so
much
interested
and
concerned
therein
.
Secondly
,
Their
love
to
the
Church
,
of
which
they
are
Members
makes
this
greatly
desirable
.
Moses
was
a
Man
who
excelled
in
love
to
the
Church
,
witness
that
transcendent
rapture
of
his
,
Exod
.
32.32
.
but
though
he
be
scarcely
imitable
therein
,
yet
every
real
Christian
doth
in
his
right
frame
prefer
Jerusalem
to
his
chief
joy
.
Psal
.
137.5
,
6.
and
accordingly
,
their
love
to
Zion
is
evidenced
in
their
Prayers
for
and
desires
of
its
prosperity
.
Isa
.
61.2
.
For
Zions
sake
will
I
not
hold
my
peace
,
and
for
Jerusalems
sake
I
will
not
rest
,
until
the
righteousness
thereof
go
forth
as
brightness
;
and
the
salvation
of
it
as
a
lamp
that
burneth
:
So
again
,
Psal
.
122.8
.
For
my
brethren
,
my
companions
sake
I
will
now
say
,
peace
be
within
thee
:
For
when
the
Church
shall
be
delivered
from
the
Antichristian
yoak
,
and
setled
in
peace
and
purity
,
great
will
its
increase
be
.
Her
Children
shall
say
again
in
her
Ears
,
the
place
is
too
straight
,
give
room
that
we
may
dwell
.
She
will
look
forth
as
the
Morning
,
and
her
glory
be
fresh
in
her
.
Thirdly
,
The
pity
and
compassion
the
Saints
have
for
the
poor
,
miserable
,
perishing
World
cannot
but
make
this
a
desirable
thing
in
their
Eyes
.
For
whilst
the
Gospel
is
restrained
in
its
full
liberty
,
or
the
ordinances
corrupted
by
the
mixture
of
Humane
Inventions
and
Traditions
;
't
is
not
to
be
expected
that
the
Church
should
be
much
enlarged
by
addition
of
Converts
.
The
Kingdom
of
our
Lord
Jesus
is
for
present
confined
within
straight
and
narrow
limits
;
and
it
is
just
matter
of
sorrow
to
consider
,
how
small
a
part
of
the
habitable
World
is
in
subjection
to
him
.
So
many
Millions
bowing
down
to
Idols
;
the
dark
places
of
the
Earth
,
are
full
of
the
habitations
of
Cruelty
,
Psal
.
74.20
.
the
sight
of
precious
Souls
perishing
for
want
of
the
Word
,
made
the
bowels
of
the
Compassionate
Redeemer
to
yearn
within
him
,
Matth
.
9.36
.
and
the
same
consideration
and
occasion
cannot
but
affect
and
melt
every
Soul
in
which
is
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
proportionable
to
the
compassions
Men
have
for
the
miseries
of
the
perishing
World
,
will
their
desires
be
for
the
enlarging
and
perfecting
of
Gospel
Priviledges
and
Mercies
.
Fourthly
,
Love
to
our selves
will
make
us
long
for
such
a
sight
as
this
:
For
what
is
there
in
this
World
more
pleasant
to
a
Christian
,
than
to
see
Christ
walking
amidst
the
Golden
Candlesticks
?
The
peaceful
and
sweet
enjoyment
of
God
in
his
pure
Ordinances
?
Psal
.
27.4
.
One
thing
have
I
desired
of
the
Lord
,
that
will
I
seek
after
,
that
I
may
dwell
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
all
the
dayes
of
my
Life
,
to
behold
the
beauty
of
the
Lord
,
and
to
enquire
in
his
Temple
.
This
was
Davids
hoc
unicum
,
one
thing
above
all
other
things
in
this
World
in
his
Eye
,
and
so
it
is
to
all
that
see
things
with
such
an
Eye
as
David
had
;
and
next
to
that
is
the
sweet
and
comfortable
communion
of
Saints
,
with
one
heart
and
mouth
glorifying
God
,
and
serving
him
with
one
consent
.
These
are
the
things
that
make
it
worth
while
to
live
on
Earth
:
The
pleasure
of
Life
doth
consist
in
them
.
Now
all
these
desirable
things
cannot
be
enjoyed
in
any
eminent
degree
on
this
side
Jordan
,
I
mean
till
the
great
promises
now
near
their
birth
,
be
accomplished
.
USE
1.
This
point
before
us
frowns
upon
,
and
severely
reprehends
two
sorts
of
persons
,
viz.
-
1.
The
Wicked
.
-
2.
The
Godly
.
(
1.
)
It
administers
just
reprehension
to
wicked
men
,
who
instead
of
thankful
acknowledgments
of
the
beginnings
of
mercies
,
and
improving
them
in
Prayer
for
the
obtaining
of
greater
,
do
inwardly
repine
and
fret
at
the
Work
of
Mercy
begun
,
and
are
afraid
of
nothing
more
than
a
full
and
compleat
reformation
.
Are
there
not
such
wretched
Creatures
to
be
found
this
day
in
England
,
that
would
be
better
pleased
to
be
at
their
old
persecuting
work
again
,
and
see
good
men
destroyed
,
than
to
enjoy
a
due
liberty
to
worship
God
according
to
the
dictates
of
their
Consciences
;
after
they
have
seriously
studied
and
pray'd
for
information
?
Some
there
are
who
call
themselves
Protestants
,
but
(
blush
O
Heavens
at
this
,
and
be
astonished
)
they
have
not
been
ashamed
to
say
,
rather
Popery
,
than
Presbytery
:
And
Haman
like
,
take
no
comfort
in
their
own
liberty
,
because
those
they
hate
injoy
theirs
.
Thus
it
was
with
the
ungodly
Murmurers
in
Israel
,
when
God
had
brought
them
out
of
Aegypt
with
Signs
and
Wonders
,
and
a
mighty
hand
,
yet
their
lusts
being
crossed
,
they
would
needs
make
them
a
Captain
,
and
return
back
to
Egypt
,
Numb
.
14.4
.
What
madness
was
here
?
Could
they
think
God
would
divide
the
Red
Sea
for
them
in
their
return
to
Egypt
,
as
he
did
at
their
departure
thence
?
Or
that
they
should
find
such
welcome
in
Egypt
,
which
they
had
deserted
,
disobliged
,
and
brought
so
much
ruine
upon
?
What
stupendious
madness
was
here
!
(
2.
)
It
justly
rebukes
the
dead-heartedness
and
ingratitude
of
good
men
,
amongst
many
of
whom
is
neither
found
that
fervency
in
Prayer
,
nor
sense
of
present
mercies
which
God
expects
,
and
the
present
dispensations
of
his
Providences
call
for
.
How
inexcusable
at
this
time
,
is
a
flat
,
discouraged
and
dull
Spirit
in
Prayer
?
To
be
found
under
such
a
temper
as
this
,
when
the
morning
of
so
glorious
a
day
is
sprung
up
and
opened
upon
us
,
such
encouragements
to
enliven
Faith
and
hope
are
before
our
eyes
;
this
is
sad
:
The
Saints
that
are
gone
to
Heaven
under
the
late
&
former
troubles
,
were
mighty
wrestlers
with
God
in
Prayer
:
They
fasted
and
wept
;
they
pleaded
our
cause
heartily
with
God
,
wept
and
made
supplication
for
the
mercies
we
now
enjoy
;
though
it
was
not
their
lot
to
see
them
,
and
shall
we
that
are
entred
into
the
Fruits
and
Mercies
they
prayed
for
,
and
are
under
such
signal
encouragements
be
now
remiss
and
cold
!
Or
shall
we
ingratefully
overlook
the
beginnings
of
Mercy
,
as
small
and
inconsiderable
things
?
Shall
we
say
all
this
is
nothing
,
because
we
have
not
yet
all
that
we
would
have
?
God
forbid
.
When
Israel
was
in
Egypt
,
then
a
little
Straw
would
have
been
esteemed
as
a
great
Mercy
;
but
afterwards
Quailes
and
Mannah
were
despised
and
slighted
.
Brethren
,
three
or
four
years
ago
,
you
would
have
accounted
it
a
special
Mercy
to
have
enjoyed
an
hour
or
two
together
in
Prayer
,
or
to
have
had
a
little
Spiritual
Bread
handed
to
you
behind
your
Enemies
backs
:
and
is
it
nothing
in
your
eyes
this
day
,
to
behold
the
Worship
of
God
at
liberty
?
Yea
,
to
see
the
success
of
the
Gospel
,
in
the
bringing
home
of
many
Souls
to
Christ
?
The
fears
of
Popery
vanished
?
The
Witnesses
risen
,
the
tenth
part
of
the
City
fallen
,
and
such
a
prospect
of
far
greater
and
more
glorious
things
before
your
eyes
?
O
let
not
the
Consolations
of
the
Almighty
seem
small
.
If
Wicked
Men
envy
and
grudge
at
our
Mercies
,
and
we
our selves
undervalue
and
slight
them
,
then
is
there
a
grievous
provocation
given
to
the
Lord
,
to
turn
his
hand
,
and
bring
all
our
former
Miseries
back
again
upon
us
.
USE
2.
Hath
God
brought
us
by
a
mighty
hand
out
of
Spiritual
Egypt
,
by
the
Reformation
,
and
hath
now
led
us
so
many
years
through
the
Wilderness
,
till
he
hath
brought
us
at
last
almost
in
sight
of
the
good
things
he
hath
promised
;
then
let
us
be
exhorted
to
the
Duties
,
and
warned
of
the
Dangers
of
our
present
State
.
(
1.
)
Take
heed
of
provoking
God
in
the
way
.
Moses
did
so
,
and
for
that
was
shut
out
of
the
good
Land
,
Numb
.
20.12
.
his
heedlesness
of
the
Command
,
deprived
him
of
the
good
of
the
promise
.
Unbelief
,
Murmuring
,
and
Idolatry
shut
out
many
thousands
of
them
that
came
out
of
Egypt
,
and
for
those
Sins
their
Carkasses
fell
in
the
Wilderness
.
1
Cor
.
10.6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10.
And
these
are
our
Examples
,
not
for
imitation
,
but
caution
.
When
Seamen
sail
along
the
Coast
,
where
abundance
of
wrack
is
floating
,
they
sail
the
more
warily
.
You
are
not
yet
so
secure
and
safe
,
but
that
you
may
quickly
fall
into
as
great
Dangers
and
Miseries
as
ever
,
if
you
provoke
the
Lord
in
the
way
of
Mercies
.
In
the
miscarriage
of
others
we
get
experience
at
a
cheap
rate
.
After
great
Deliverances
,
the
greatest
Judgments
are
to
be
feared
,
if
God
be
provoked
by
the
abuse
of
them
.
So
Joshua
tells
them
,
Jos
.
24.20
.
He
will
turn
again
,
and
do
you
hurt
,
after
he
hath
done
you
good
;
for
one
Mercy
can
never
be
pleaded
as
an
Argument
to
obtain
another
,
if
it
be
abused
and
trampled
under
feet
:
So
Jos
.
23.15
.
and
Jude
12.
(
2.
)
Be
not
discouraged
if
you
should
meet
with
some
difficulties
,
even
on
the
borders
of
the
Land
of
Promise
.
After
all
their
Wilderness-straights
,
Deliverance
at
the
Red
Sea
,
encounters
with
the
Neighbouring
Kings
;
there
was
a
swelling
Jordan
at
last
betwixt
them
and
the
place
of
rest
and
Mercy
;
and
so
it
may
fall
out
with
us
;
but
let
not
our
Faith
be
stagger'd
,
for
look
as
the
Ark
of
the
Covenant
stood
in
the
midst
of
Jordan
to
secure
the
Tribes
in
their
passage
through
it
,
Jos
.
3.8
.
so
doth
the
promise
stand
this
day
in
the
midst
of
Mystical
Jordan
,
I
mean
the
Dangers
and
Troubles
of
the
Church
to
secure
its
passage
through
them
all
.
Brethren
,
follow
ye
the
Lord
in
the
way
of
Duty
,
and
you
shall
assuredly
find
that
Jordan
shall
divide
when
you
come
to
it
;
and
that
all
Troubles
,
all
Fears
,
all
Difficulties
do
owe
you
a
safe
passage
through
them
;
the
Covenant
,
yea
,
Christ
the
Mediator
of
the
Covenant
stands
in
the
midst
of
them
all
to
secure
you
.
(
3.
)
Bless
God
for
casting
the
lot
of
your
Nativity
upon
such
an
happy
and
extraordinary
period
of
time
as
this
is
.
Many
Saints
have
desired
to
see
the
dayes
you
are
likely
to
see
in
a
little
time
,
and
have
not
seen
them
.
The
whole
space
of
time
from
the
first
to
the
second
coming
of
Christ
,
is
by
the
Prophets
called
one
day
,
Zech
.
14.7
.
and
the
greatest
part
of
this
long
day
,
very
doubtful
and
changeable
;
neither
light
,
nor
dark
,
nor
day
,
nor
night
:
Peace
and
Trouble
;
Truth
and
Errors
taking
all
along
their
alternate
Courses
.
But
at
Evening
time
it
shall
be
light
:
And
as
the
greatest
darkness
is
a
little
before
the
dawning
of
the
Morning
;
so
here
,
the
blackest
and
gloomiest
part
of
the
whole
day
is
to
be
expected
before
this
lightsome
glorious
Evening
;
such
tribulations
immediately
before
the
fall
and
ruine
of
Antichrist
,
as
ages
past
never
saw
.
Lactantius
speaking
of
this
very
time
,
That
a
little
before
it
,
the
State
of
Humane
Affairs
must
necessarily
be
changed
,
and
all
things
grow
worse
and
worse
;
so
that
these
times
of
ours
(
saith
he
)
in
which
iniquity
is
grown
as
one
would
think
to
the
height
,
yet
in
comparison
with
those
dayes
may
even
be
called
golden
times
;
the
Godly
shall
be
every
where
distressed
by
the
wicked
,
they
shall
flourish
,
and
the
righteous
be
in
contempt
;
all
Right
and
Law
shall
perish
and
be
confounded
;
no
man
shall
possess
any
thing
but
what
is
ill
gotten
,
or
valiantly
defended
;
there
shall
be
no
faithfulness
in
men
;
no
peace
,
humanity
,
shame
,
or
truth
left
:
Wars
shall
rage
every
where
;
all
Nations
shall
be
in
Arms
;
neighbouring
Cities
shall
war
upon
each
other
;
then
shall
slaughters
be
in
all
the
World
,
mowing
down
all
like
an
harvest
;
of
which
confusions
and
destructions
,
this
shall
be
the
cause
:
I
tremble
to
speak
it
,
(
but
it
must
be
spoken
,
for
it
shall
surely
come
to
pass
)
that
the
Roman
name
by
which
the
World
is
now
ruled
,
shall
be
taken
away
from
the
Earth
.
These
things
in
themselves
are
exceeding
dreadful
,
and
yet
I
say
,
let
the
Saints
rejoyce
in
that
God
hath
cast
their
lot
upon
these
times
.
For
(
1.
)
These
are
the
last
Troubles
the
Church
is
like
to
feel
from
the
hands
of
that
Enemy
,
and
there
is
much
comfort
in
that
.
God
never
exercised
so
great
Patience
and
Long-suffering
towards
any
Enemy
of
his
Church
as
he
hath
towards
this
.
But
the
day
is
come
to
avenge
the
blood
of
the
Saints
upon
Babylon
,
and
destructions
are
come
,
even
come
to
a
perpetual
End.
(
2.
)
The
Lord
will
take
care
of
his
people
in
all
these
Calamities
,
and
National
Confusions
.
They
shall
be
reserved
as
a
Seed
to
continue
and
inlarge
the
Church
,
which
is
to
be
the
subject
of
all
the
promised
Liberty
and
Glory
.
4.
Labour
to
get
suitable
frames
of
spirit
to
those
good
Times
you
expect
.
Carnal
Hearts
will
not
suit
them
,
or
find
any
pleasure
in
them
.
We
look
according
to
the
promise
for
new
Heavens
,
and
a
new
Earth
wherein
dwelleth
Righteousness
;
and
seeing
we
look
for
such
things
,
oh
what
manner
of
persons
ought
we
to
be
!
2
Pet
.
3.11
.
You
that
are
Parents
,
how
are
you
concerned
not
only
for
your selves
,
but
for
the
Religious
Education
of
your
Children
.
If
you
live
not
to
see
those
good
days
,
in
all
probability
they
will
;
the
hopes
of
the
next
Generation
depends
much
upon
your
Religious
and
Zealous
Care
and
Diligence
.
Never
were
Children
born
in
a
more
happy
and
encouraging
time
than
yours
is
.
And
for
you
young
ones
,
I
would
leave
one
word
of
Counsel
this
day
.
Get
Principles
of
Grace
implanted
in
your
hearts
betime
.
For
the
days
are
coming
in
which
this
World
will
be
no
place
of
pleasure
for
prophane
and
carnal
persons
.
As
serious
Piety
hath
been
hissed
at
and
ridicul'd
in
these
late
debauched
times
,
so
will
prophaneness
in
future
times
.
Holiness
to
the
Lord
shall
be
upon
the
bells
of
the
Horses
,
Zech
.
14.20
.
That
is
,
Husbandmen
shall
have
their
Hearts
in
Heaven
,
whilst
their
Hands
are
on
the
Plow
.
Merchants
and
Seamen
,
shall
drive
a
trade
for
Heaven
,
as
well
as
Earth
,
Isa
.
23.18
.
Isa
.
60.5
.
If
you
be
prophane
and
ungodly
,
you
shall
at
once
be
the
contempt
of
Heaven
and
Earth
.
5.
Lastly
,
Bless
God
for
those
Instruments
by
which
you
are
brought
out
of
Spiritual
Egypt
to
the
borders
of
Canaan
.
You
must
not
ascribe
more
to
Instruments
than
is
due
to
them
,
nor
lean
and
depend
too
much
on
them
.
Many
benumb
their
own
Arms
,
by
leaning
on
them
.
But
on
the
other
side
,
beware
of
Ingratitude
to
the
Instruments
by
which
God
works
out
your
deliverances
,
and
conveighs
to
you
such
excellent
Mercies
.
Some
know
no
other
way
of
expressing
their
Joy
but
by
drunken
Healths
and
Huzza's
,
a
Sacrifice
suitable
enough
to
Bacchus
,
but
such
as
God
abhors
,
and
his
Vicegerent
will
not
thank
you
for
.
There
are
other
ways
of
expressing
your
joy
in
the
Mercy
which
will
be
highly
acceptable
both
to
God
,
and
the
King
,
viz.
(
1.
)
Pray
for
your
Rulers
,
that
God
would
make
Kings
to
be
Nursing-Fathers
,
and
Queens
Nursing-Mothers
to
the
Church
,
according
to
that
promise
,
Isa
.
49.23
.
That
he
would
preserve
and
secure
the
heart
of
the
King
by
his
Wisdom
and
Fear
from
those
dangerous
Temptations
and
Snares
that
surround
the
Throne
.
That
he
may
be
just
,
ruling
in
the
fear
of
God
,
and
so
be
as
the
light
of
the
morning
when
the
Sun
riseth
,
even
a
morning
without
clouds
;
as
the
tender
grass
springing
out
of
the
earth
,
by
clear
shineing
after
rain
,
2
Sam
.
23.3
,
4.
That
the
Zeal
of
God
may
inflame
his
Soul
,
and
that
he
may
be
a
second
Hezekiah
in
restoring
and
reforming
the
Worship
of
God
.
That
God
would
lengthen
the
days
of
his
life
upon
the
Throne
,
for
the
peace
and
prosperity
of
his
Church
.
In
this
you
will
answer
the
great
things
God
hath
done
for
you
,
and
his
Church
at
this
time
.
(
2.
)
Be
Loyal
,
Peaceable
and
Obedient
Subjects
.
Convince
the
World
that
Religion
breeds
the
best
Subjects
.
Render
to
Caesar
the
things
that
are
Caesars
,
and
to
God
the
things
that
are
Gods
,
Mark
12.17
.
where
you
enjoy
Protection
,
you
owe
Allegiance
.
Be
not
Murmurers
,
as
the
ungrateful
Israelites
were
,
1
Cor
.
10.10
.
understand
and
value
the
Mercies
you
enjoy
under
the
Government
,
and
bless
God
for
them
;
lest
he
teach
you
by
sad
Experience
the
difference
betwixt
his
service
,
and
the
service
of
the
Kingdoms
of
the
Countries
,
as
he
did
them
,
2
Chron
.
12.8
.
Beware
you
exchange
not
the
Golden
Yoke
of
Christ
for
the
Iron
Yoke
of
Antichrist
.
(
3.
)
Take
heed
to
order
your
Conversations
aright
,
let
not
your
irreligious
lives
make
the
solemn
Religious
Duties
of
this
day
to
blush
.
Whoso
offereth
praise
,
glorifieth
me
;
and
to
him
that
ordereth
his
conversation
aright
,
will
I
shew
the
salvation
of
God
,
Psal
.
50.
ult
.
And
thus
your
present
Mercies
,
how
great
and
glorious
soever
they
be
in
themselves
;
shall
be
but
as
the
dawning
Light
of
a
much
more
Glorious
Day
springing
up
upon
these
Nations
,
and
all
the
Churcches
of
Christ
after
so
long
and
gloomy
a
night
of
Afflictions
and
Sorrows
;
which
the
Father
of
Mercies
grant
for
the
sake
of
Jesus
Christ
,
Amen
.
FINIS
.