eous put forth their hand unto iniquity. I will call on the Lord, so shall I be saved from mine enemies. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces, the eyes of the wicked shall fail; their refuge shall per. ish, their hope shall be sorrow of mind. b The Lord shall cause thine enemies, that rise up against thee, to be smitten before thy face. "

Seest thou many rise up to trouble thee? Apply, "Thine enemies that rise against thee, shall fall before thy face." Hope they to prevail against thee? Apply, "Their hope shall be sorrow of mind." Have they great means to cause them to prosper? Apply, "Their refuge shall perish." Have they long oppressed thee? Apply, "The rod of the wicked shall not always rest upon the lot of the righteous." Seest thou no means to get from them? Say with the prophet David, "I will call upon the Lord, so shall I be safe from mine enemies."

That thou mayest be delivered, and thine enemies afflicted.

"The Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which prosecute thee. The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. e"

aPsalm cxxv, 3. bPsalm xviii, 3. 1 Sam. ii, 10. Job xi, 20. cDeut. xxviii, 7. dDeut. xxx, 7. e Prov. xxi, 18.

If thou wouldest have thine enemies destroyed. "They that hate thee shall be cloathed with shame, and the dwelling-place of the wicked shall come to nought.a

"Behold all they which were incensed against thee, shall be ashamed and confounded; they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish; for I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not, I will help thee. Thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff: b?? by which mountains and hills is meant the greatest enemies.

"They that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." These promises are to be applied by us, as they are the enemies of God and of his gospel, and ours for his sake.

If the wicked plot against thee.

"The wicked plot against the just; their sword shall enter into their own heart, their bow shall be broken: The Lord shall laugh at him.d

"The enemies shall surely gather themselves together against thee, but not by me; whosoever shall gather themselves together against thee shall fall.."

In the troubles of the church. "Thou shalt see peace upon Israel, thou

a Job viii, 22. bIsa. xli, 11, 13, 15. c1 Sam. ii, 30. d Psalm xxxvii, 12, 15, 13. eIsa. liv, 15.

shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. Thou shalt come and sing in the height of Zion. b

When thou hast applied the promises, and used all the means, and yet findest not thyself filled with God as thou desirest, then comfort thyself with this, "Yet a little while, and when thou awakest, thou shalt be satisfied with his image.c

For the fall of Antichrist.

Because the time draweth near of the fall of antichrist, we must stir up ourselves to hasten the Lord by earnest prayers; and for the strengthening of our faith, apply these promises, "And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,-these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire.d

"Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning, and famine, and she shall be utterly burnt with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And a mighty angel took up a stone, like a great mill-stone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all. "Even so, come, Lord Jesus, and hasten this happy day.

aPsalm cxxvii, 6, 5.

15. dRev. xvii, 16.

b.Jer. xxxi, 12. cPsalm xvii, Rev. xviii, 8, 21.

For the calling of the Jews.

Seeing the Lord hath promised many glorious things to the Jews, with much grace and peace both to the Jews and Gentiles at their conversion; when the ten tribes shall be re-united to the two, which never yet was, let us never give him rest till he sit up Jerusalem the praise of the world; and for the strengthening of us in prayer, apply these promises, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will take the children of Israel fron among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: and I will make them one nation, in the land upon the mountains of Israel: and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be livided into two kingdoms any more at all.a

"In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north, to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.b

"The Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee: and the Gentiles shall cone to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising; thy sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters shall be

a Ezek. xxxvii 21, 22. Jer. iii, 18.

nursed at thy side: then thou shalt see and flow together, and thine heart shall fear and be enlarged, because the sea shall be converted unto thee: the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no mai went through thee, I will make thee an etenal excellency, a joy of many generations: thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breasts of kings

"The Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory; and thou slalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name; thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand a thy God.b

"They shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolatiors, they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations; and strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and he sons of of the alien shall be your plougimen, and your vine-dressers; but ye shal be named the priests of the Lord: men shall call you the ministers of our God:' yeshall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and h their glory shall you boast yourselves.c

"Thus saith the Lord, Benold I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles and set up my

alsa. lx, 2, 3, 45, 15, 16. sa. lxii, 2, 3. cIsa. Ixi, 4, 5, 6.