4. Mat, 18, ;. Eph. 4. 14, &c. For ſuch are very unfir to grapple with an Ene- my : and therefore when ſuch perſons conquer the moſt powerful and malicious Enemies; ic muſt needs exceedingly confound and ſilence rhem, and mightily advance the glory of God: as indeed it did, when ſuch mean and obſcure Perſons as the Apoſtles and Mi- niſters, and Diſciples of Chriſt were,did maintain and propagate the Goſpel in ſpightof all the Wir, and Power, and Rage of their Ene. mies- S2e 1 Cor: 1. 25. 27, 28, 29. And of ſuch Babes as theſe Chriſt himſelf expounds this place. Mat. 21: 16- Of which more God wil- ling upon that place- g Or, thou haſt founded ( or confirmed, or eftabli. ſhed, or firmly ſetled,” or fitted, or perf-fed, as it is rendred by the LXX and vulgar Latine here: and by St. Mathew Ch: 21415,I (7:e.) perteQly and firmlyeſertled ) Strength : By which he ſeems to un- deritand either 1, The Ce)ebration or Praiſe of his ſtrength or po. wer, by comparing this with Mypt: 21;16.where it 1s rendred Pra;ſe, So it is on'y a Metonymy of the Adjun@, which is moſt frequent in Scriptare and all Authors. And fo the word Strength ſeems to be raken Pſal. 29: 1. and 96, 7. Or 2. A ſtrong and mighty King- dom," the Abſtraft being pur for the Concrete, than which no- thing 15 more frequent, even the Kingdom of Chriſt, or his Goſpel, which 1s ofccalled the 4-mor Power of God, as Pſal: 110+ 2. Iſa. 53:1. And rhis Kingdom being an everlaſting,and invin- clþle, an all-conquering Kingdom, Dan: 2: 44. itis no wonder it 8s here call:d frength. And this Goſpel or Kingdom is here ſaid to be founded dr eftabliſhzd, not by che Hands or valiant AGtions of Men of Might, as other Kingdoms are, but meerly by the Mouths of Babes, &c- ( i.e. ) by the Words and Diſcourſes of Chriſt's Apo- ſtles and Diſciples. Which isjuſtly obſerved and celebrated here as a wonderful work of God. h( 5. e. ) Silence, and Confound, and Conquer.cither by Convincing and Converting them, or by deſtroy- ang them. i The Eaxemies o: God and of his people, the Devil,the head of them, whoſe Kingdom and Power is aboliſhed by this means. and all Men who fiyhe under his Banner againit God and Chriſr and his Members, kWhich Title moſt truly and fitly agrees,
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» Thou didft give all power andHall things into his hands, Mat: 28:18. John 13: 3, 4 Bothin Heaven, where are the Angels men- tionzd v;5. and in the Earth, Air and Sea, as it follows. For no- thing is excepted beſides God, 1 Cor: 15: 25, 27: Heb: 2:8. || i: e Made them ſubje& ro himy as this Phraſe oft ſignifies. See Deur, 33+ 3. Judges 5.27. Pſalm 18. 38. and 110, 1.
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will diſcourſe in the general of thy manifold Wonders wrought for me,and for thy Church and People formeriy. The particle a/ is herczas it is ofc elſewhere taken ina reitrained venle.
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