God's unstoppable
(Chistian in Complete Armour, p 110)
Unbelief fears Satan as a lion, faith treads on him as a worm (/Increduli timent diabolum quasi leonem, qui fide fortes despiciunt quasi vermiculum.--Bern/)
Behold therefore thy God at work and promise thyself that what He is about will be an excellent piece [Eph 2:10]. None can drive Him from His work. The pilot is beaten from the helm, and can do little in a storm, but lets the ship go adrift. The architect cannot work when night draws the curtain, yea is driven off the scaffold with a storm of rain. Such workmen are the wisest counsellors and mightiest princes on earth. A pinch may come, when it is as vain to say, "Help, O king" as "Help, O beggar." Man's wisdom may be levelled with folly, but God is never interrupted. All the plots of hell and commotions on earth, have not so much as shaken God's hand, to spoil one letter or line that he has been drawing. The mysteriousness of his providence may hang a curtain in front of his work, that we cannot see what he is doing, but even when darkness is about him, rigteousness is the seat of his throne forever.
Even if you ee a Babel going up instead of a Babylon being pulled down, yet believe God is making his secret approaches and will clap his ladders suddenly to the walls thereof.
Is truth a prisoner with Joseph and error in the king's courts, to have its head lifted up by the favour of the times? Dost thou not remember that the way to truth's perferment lies through the prison?
Is the church like Jonah in the whale's belly, swallowed up to the eye of reason by the fury of men? Remember that the whale had not power to digest the prophet. Be not too quick to bury the church before she be dead. Stay while Christ applies his skill before you give it over. Bring Christ by your prayers to its grave to speak a resurrection word.
Joseph pawned his bones that God would visit his brethren, willing them to lay him where he believed they should be brought.
Jeremiah purchases a field from his uncle, and pays down the money for it, and this when the Chaldean army is quartered about Jerusalem, ready to take the city and to carry him with the rest into Babylon. And all this by God's appointment, that he might show the Jews how undoubtedly he did believe--even in that sad juncture of time--the performance of the promise for their return out of captitvitiy.
God is exceedingly disparaged in the thoughts of his people, though at the lowest ebb of his church's affairs, if his naked word, and the single bond of his promise will not be taken as sufficient security to their faith for its deliverance.
Unbelief fears Satan as a lion, faith treads on him as a worm (/Increduli timent diabolum quasi leonem, qui fide fortes despiciunt quasi vermiculum.--Bern/)
Behold therefore thy God at work and promise thyself that what He is about will be an excellent piece [Eph 2:10]. None can drive Him from His work. The pilot is beaten from the helm, and can do little in a storm, but lets the ship go adrift. The architect cannot work when night draws the curtain, yea is driven off the scaffold with a storm of rain. Such workmen are the wisest counsellors and mightiest princes on earth. A pinch may come, when it is as vain to say, "Help, O king" as "Help, O beggar." Man's wisdom may be levelled with folly, but God is never interrupted. All the plots of hell and commotions on earth, have not so much as shaken God's hand, to spoil one letter or line that he has been drawing. The mysteriousness of his providence may hang a curtain in front of his work, that we cannot see what he is doing, but even when darkness is about him, rigteousness is the seat of his throne forever.
Even if you ee a Babel going up instead of a Babylon being pulled down, yet believe God is making his secret approaches and will clap his ladders suddenly to the walls thereof.
Is truth a prisoner with Joseph and error in the king's courts, to have its head lifted up by the favour of the times? Dost thou not remember that the way to truth's perferment lies through the prison?
Is the church like Jonah in the whale's belly, swallowed up to the eye of reason by the fury of men? Remember that the whale had not power to digest the prophet. Be not too quick to bury the church before she be dead. Stay while Christ applies his skill before you give it over. Bring Christ by your prayers to its grave to speak a resurrection word.
Joseph pawned his bones that God would visit his brethren, willing them to lay him where he believed they should be brought.
Jeremiah purchases a field from his uncle, and pays down the money for it, and this when the Chaldean army is quartered about Jerusalem, ready to take the city and to carry him with the rest into Babylon. And all this by God's appointment, that he might show the Jews how undoubtedly he did believe--even in that sad juncture of time--the performance of the promise for their return out of captitvitiy.
God is exceedingly disparaged in the thoughts of his people, though at the lowest ebb of his church's affairs, if his naked word, and the single bond of his promise will not be taken as sufficient security to their faith for its deliverance.
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