By which they saw plainly, to their exceeding great
confirmation and comfort, that all things were possible with him with
whom they had to do. And that the more that which God required seemed to
cross man's wisdom, and expose them to man's wrath, the more God appeared
to help and carry them through all to his glory.
Insomuch, that if ever any people could say in truth, Thou art our sun
and our shield, our rock and sanctuary; and by thee we have leaped over a
wall, and by thee we have run through a troop, and by thee we have put
the armies of the aliens to flight; these people had a right to say it.
And as God had delivered their souls of the wearisome burdens of sin and
vanity, and enriched their poverty of spirit, and satisfied their great
hunger and thirst after eternal righteousness, and filled them with the
good things of his own house, and made them stewards of his manifold
gifts; so they went forth to all quarters of these nations, to declare to
the inhabitants thereof, what God had done for them; what they had found,
and where and how they had found it, viz.--The way to peace with God:
inviting all to come and see, and taste for themselves, the truth of what
they declared unto them.
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