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devil's black livery: There you may fee curfed Atheism and Unbelief, armed with lyes, and blafphemies, and bitter invectives againft heaven: There you will fee cruel enmity, armed with a bloody fword of forcible oppofition unto God and Chrift: There you will fee fubtle bypocrify, armed with fraud and flattery: There you will fee brafen-faced hardness of heart, armed with a brow of brass: There you may fee dultifb fecurity, armed with a fearless fpirit, and a ftupid confcience; bold prefumption, armed with a daring countenance; towering pride, armed with a robe of gaudy attire, and an eye of fcorn, contempt and difdain; as alfo felf-righteous confidence, armed with grofs ignorance both of the fpirituality of the law, and mystery of the gospel. There is a powerful nation of heart-plagues and deceitful lufts, that reign over the ungodly world, and many times rage in the hearts of believers, to the leading of them captive.

.7. There is a nation of actual out-breakings in the life, and fins in the converfation: Thefe are, like the common foldiers of the army of hell, making daily excurfions into the camp of Ifrael; yea, every hour of the day they are breaking out on this hand, and on that hand, and round about us on all hands, in innumerable omiffions and commiffions. Here breaks out intemperance and infobriety, in eating, drinking, and ufing of the comforts of life; there breaks out idle words, vain talking, unprofitable converfation: Here appears negligence in duty, or carelefness and indifferency in hearing, reading, praying, communicating; and there appears mif-jpending of time, fabbath and week-days both, wafting our precious opportunities, and mifimproving our talents, without endeavouring to do good, or get good, to glorify

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glorify God, or edify these that are converfant with The former nation I mentioned was the lufts of the flesh, and this nation is the works of the flesh: The lufts of the flesh are deceitfully hidden within the walls; the works of the flesh are open and manifeft, making continual outward excurfions. You have a lift of them, Gal. v. 19, 20, 21. Another lift of the names of the foldiers of this army you may read, 2 Tim. iii. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, &c. Men fhall be lovers of themfelves: There goes the king and commander in chief, felf-love; and then follows a lift of the common foldiers, covetous, boafters, proud, &c. Now these are seven nations continually in arms, and at work for hell, and against heaven: The nation of vain thoughts continually flying poft through the rest of the nations for intelligence; the nation of worldly cares continually making provifion for the flesh, to fulfil the lufts thereof; the nation of doubts, and unbelieving fears and jealoufies, is ftill keeping watch, and standing centinel at the door of the heart, to keep out all heavenly meffages, and exclude all propofals of peace with heaven; the nation of ungodly men continually guarding the out-works of hell, and playing their battering-rams, to beat down what God, and Chrift, and the gospel would build up; the nation of mighty kings, that I mentioned, are ftill iffuing forth new commands and orders for war against heaven; the nation of deceitful lufts, like officers of the army, are ftill muftering the hoft, leading them forth to the field of battle, and fetting them in battle-array; and the nation of actual fins and out-breakings are still brandishing their fwords and fpears, making daily and hourly excurfions out of the camp of hell, and incurfions upon their oppofites and antagonists, running upon the camp of Ifrael, to destroy them, and hinder Dd 4

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their march to the heavenly Canaan. Now, to thefe feven nations all the world of mankind are, by nature kept in fubjection; and, which is worse, they are willing flaves and captives to them: And even the Ifrael of God, that have left their camp, and fled under the colours and ftandard of the Lord Jefus Chrift the captain of falvation, are many times led captive by them; they are still giving battle to Ifrael. Now, O thou that art bound for the celeftial Canaan, what thinkeft thou of these nations? Are they not feven nations, greater and mightier than thou? Surely, if thou haft found, to thy fad experience, the power, and policy, and pernicious influence of these mighty nations upon thee, it will be welcome news to hear that the Lord thy God will put out thefe nations before thee by little and little.

FOURTH HEAD.

The Fourth thing that I propofed, was, to speak a little of the conqueror of thefe nations, that is, The king of glory, The Lord ftrong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. Indeed, they that have fuch mighty nations to fight and debate with, have need of a mighty conqueror to fubdue them: And he is here faid to be the Lord thy God; where he is defcribed, 1. By his name, JEHOVAH. 2. By his relation to them in Chrift, Thy GOD.

(1.) Ifrael's captain, that fights their battles, is defcribed by his great name Jehovah, THE LORD, in capital letters; which is ordinarily used in all our English tranflations, to intimate that in the original it is JEHOVAH: And it is a name that points out the perfection of his nature. It is remarked,

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that all along the firft chapter of Genefis, while God was yet upon his creating work, he is called ELOCHIM, a God of power; but in the fecond chapter of Genefis, ver. 4. God having compleated his work, he is then called JEHOVAH-ELOCHIM, a God of power and perfection. And as here he takes that name, when he perfects what he had begun; fo we find him making himself known by this name, when he appears to perform what he had promised to Ifrael, Exod. vi. 3. I appeared to Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, by the name of GOD ALMIGHTY; but by my name JEHOVAH was I not made known to them. God would now be known by his name JEHOVAH, as being, 1. A God performing what he had promised, and fo giv ing a being to his promifes. 2. A God perfecting what he had begun, and finishing his own work. And now, the fubduing of the Canaanites before Ifrael, was a work that God had promifed, and a work that now he had begun; therefore he makes' himself known in this work by his name Jehovah, a performing and perfecting God. This is the powerful conqueror, that all the true Ifrael of God have to look to, and depend upon for destroying the nations of fpiritual enemies for them. This name belongs to our Lord Jefus Chrift, equally with the Father, and the eternal Spirit. It is he that led Ifrael out of Egypt by the hand of Mofes, wrought wonders for them, and brought them to Canaan, and delivered their enemies into their hand; by all which was typified the greater falvation and deliverance that he was to work, in accomplishing the business of our redemption in our nature. And, by taking to himself the name JESUS, he hath not loft the name JEHOVAH; nay, he could not

be a Jefus, if he were not Jehovah; he could not
deftroy these nations I have named, the fum of
which is fin: For to deftroy fin, is more than to
make a world: Sin cannot be destroyed, without
fatisfying that infinite juftice that fin offended, and
glorifying that infinite holiness that fin affronted,
and fulfilling that law that fin had violated, and ap-
peafing that wrath and vengeance that fin had kin-
dled. Further, fin could not be destroyed, with-
out destroying the devil that begat it, and the wicked
heart that brought it forth; all which requires a
new creation, more great and glorious than the first,
and belongs to none but JEHOVAH. This name
points out the divine glory of our redeemer, and con-
queror, which I offer in these two further remarks
upon it.
1. This great name JEHOVAH (as
thefe that investigate the Hebrew root, obferve)
fignifies, being, effence, fimple-existence, or felf-fub-
fiftence; and imports his moft fimple, abfolute,
eternal and independent being and existence; hav-
ing his being in, of, and from himself; and from
whofe infinite being all creatures have their finite
being. 2. This great name JEHOVAH compre-
hends in itself the three Hebrew tenfes: The preterit,
fignifying the time paft; the prefent, fignifying what
is now; and the future, fignifying the time to come;
and imports that defignation given to Chrift,
Rev. i. 4, 8. which is, and which was, and which is
to come. Thus he is the I AM THAT I AM, as
he is called, Exod. iii. 14. The Alpha and Omega,
the first and the laft; the firft without beginning,
and the laft without end. O but they that have fuch
a glorious general to follow, need not fear to take
the field against the nations! He is JEHOVAH.

(2.) Ifrael's,

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