multitudes have endured from the Antichristian powers. But it is not from a mere hmnan foe that they have been rescued, but from the Great Dragon, that Old Serpent, the Devil, and from all his hosts. Nor is it from a mere temporal death that they have escaped, but from everlasting death in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone. Nor is it by a mere exercise of power that this deliverance has been eftected for them, but by the incarnation and death of God's co-equal, co- eternal Son : from whence it is that they sing, " Great and mar- vellous are thy works, Lnni God Almighty ;" "just and true are thy ways, Thou King of Saints :" for, as Jekonah, the Rrdeemer of h>(ieL, was their King, and took them under his own im- mediate government, so is " the Lord God Ahnighty our King, even " the King of qU the sa'mls," that ever have been or ever shall be saved. It is " the Mighty God," who, by the wonders he has wrought for us, is become "the Pi'ince of Peace ^."]
2. The perfections of God displayed in it —
[Most cruel had been the conduct of Pharaoh towards the Children of Israel : and God had repeatedly declared both to him and to Israel themselves, that he would deliver them out of his hands. When thei*efore Pharaoh, with all his host, was destroyed in the Red Sea, Moses particularly noticed the correspondence between his impiety and the judgments in- flicted on him : " The enemy said, I will pursue ; I will over- take ; I will divide the spoil ; my soul shall be satisfied upon them : I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy. — Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them : they sank as lead in the mighty waters''." But view the perfections of God in the work of redemption. Verily, " God knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust vuito the day of judgment to be pvmished'." Or, take a more comprehensive view of it: see Justice, not merely as honoured by the atonement made for sin, but as demanding salvation, if I may so speak, for those for whom it was offered ; demand- ing it, as due to him who made that atonement, aiul as due to those who trust in it for their acceptance before God. See Truth also fulfilling all the promises of God to his believing people, and making the very rage of their enemies the occa- sion of displaying more abundantly in their behalf his power and grace. Not even Mercy itself will appear more glorious to the redeemed soul in heaven, than will these once hostile perfections of justice and truth: for whilst the saint was in his unconverted state, these were the perfections which most loudly called for the judgments of God upon him; but, on his believing in Christ, they instantly became his advocates, and from thenceforth will remain through eternal ages his
greatest »Isai.ix. 6.- " Exod.xv.g, 10. ' 2 Pet. ii. 9.