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means % yet is free to work witnout \ abovu '% and against iheni ", at his pleasure. ^ IV. The
:koi1. xxi. 13. And if a man lie not \ wait, but God deliver hini into is hand ; then I will appoint thee a flace whither he shall flee. With )eut. xix. 5. As when a man goeih ito the wood with his neighbour to ew wood, and his hand fetcbetli a witii the axe to cut down tlie
aid the head -lippeth from tlie 'iv--, and lighteth upon his neigh- bour, that he di •ne of those cities, and live. 1 Kiiigs !Jtii. 2S. And Micaiah said. If thou cturn at all in peace, the Lord hath lot spoken by me. And he ?aid. Hearken, O people, every one of |0U. Ver. :H. And a certain man Irew a bow at a venture, and smote ' ' .ug of Israel between the joints
c harness : wherefore he said i..> . die driver of his chariot, Turn hine hand, and carry me out of the lost, for I am wounded. Isa. x. 6. will send liim against an hypo- Titical nation ; and against the people >f my wrath will I give him a charge, o take the spoil, and to take the >rey, and to tread them down like he mire of the streets. V.-r. 7. r|owbi.it, he meaneth not ?o, neither loth his heart think so ; but it is in ii» heart to destroy, and cut off lations not a few.
IH. kActsxxvii. 31. Paul said to he centurion, and to the soldiers, i^rri'pt these abide in the ship, ye
• be saved. Ver. -14. And the ime on boards, and some on iioueti pieces of the ship; and so it ame to pass that they escaped all afe to land. Isa. Iv. 10. For as the •ain cometh down, and the snow, "rom heaven, and returneth not tlii- her, but watered; the earth, aud
maketh it bring forth and bud, tliat it may give t-eed to the sower, and bread to the cuter : Ver. 11, So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth : it shall not return unro me void, but it shall accomplish thut wliich I please, and it shall pro- Fj'er in the thing whereto I sent it. Hos. ii. 1^1. And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord; I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the eaith. Ver. 'J2. And the earth shall hear the corn, and the whie, and the oil, and the/ shall hear Jezrccl.
1 Hos. i, 7. But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not bave them by bow, nor by sword, r.or by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen. Mat. iv. 4. But he answered and said. It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Job xxxiv. 10. Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding : Far be it from God, that lie should do wickedness, and from the Almighty, that he should conunit iniquity.
"'Rom. iv. 19. And being rot weak in faiih, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb. Ver. L'O He staggered not at the promise of God through un- belief; but was strong in faith, giv- ing glory to God: Ver. 21. Aud bei.ng fully persuad he had promised he was able also to perform.
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^ IV. The almiglity power, unsearchable wisdom, and infi- nite goodness of God, so far manifest themselves in his pro- vidence, that it extendeth itself even to the first fall, and all other sins of angels and men °, and that not by a bare per- mission P, but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful bounding "J, and otherwise ordering and governing
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shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and the iron did swim. Dan. iii. 27. And the princes, governors, and cap- tains, and the king's counsellors, be- ing gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.