The strength and power of God manifested [in the creatures weakness] against the hard judgment and judgments of cruel and unreasonable minded men, (in and of the world, and worlds spirit, and worldly censures) : whose rashness and hastinesse [therein] against the innocent, God hath found out a way to overcome and subject (even patience and endurance [of and under sufferance] in the quiet and meek life and spirit of the lamb of the fathers glory) the fury and rage of man, that turneth to the praise and glory of God; and returns the evill and mischief [thereof] on their own heads (as the remainder of what more of the rage and fury [of mans cruelty] than makes for such honour and praise of God and his creatures good) he doth restrain. And the epistle or preface to the reader, signifieth ...
by: Baker, Richard, -1697
Published: (1660)
