However,
God owned his own work, and this testimony did effectually reach, gather,
comfort, and establish the weary and heavy-laden, the hungry and thirsty,
the poor and needy, the mournful and sick of many maladies, that had
spent all upon physicians of no value, and waited for relief from heaven,
help only from above; seeing, upon a serious trial of all things, nothing
else would do but Christ himself; the light of his countenance, a touch
of his garment, and help from his hand, who cured the poor woman's issue,
raised the centurion's servant, the widow's son, the ruler's daughter,
and Peter's mother: and like her they no sooner felt his power and
efficacy upon their souls, but they gave up to obey him in a testimony to
his power: and that with resigned wills and faithful hearts, through all
mockings, contradictions, confiscations, beatings, prisons, and many
other jeopardies that attended them for his blessed name's sake.
And, truly, they were very many, and very great; so that in all human
probability they must have been swallowed up quick of the proud and
boisterous waves that swelled and beat against them, but that the God of
all their tender mercies was with them in his glorious authority; so that
the hills often fled, and the mountains melted before the power that
filled them; working mightily for them, as well as in them; one ever
following the other.
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