A call and patern for true and speedy repentance being an abridgment of those many severe sermons by Thomas Reeve ... intituled God's plea for Nineveh.

Application,

1. This shews, That man is a wanting Creat••re; he drops out of his Mo∣thers Womb like a Lump of Indigencies.

2. That Negatives for a Time, do deprive us of all Power: But

3. It shews the strength of a Saints Confidence; Our Arm is weak, happy are they that lean upon the Arm of the Lord. Oh how glorious is God in Extremities, how wonderful in Exigents. Rabsha••••h threat∣ned the Jews, that if they would not yield, he would make them eat their own Dung, and drink their own Water; Hezekiah cryed out, This it the day of Trouble, Rebuke and Blasphemy! How did God in one night free the City of all Dread: and lead back this insulting Enemy with a look in the in Nostrils. When Asah had nothing but Heavenly Aid to depend upon, saying, Help, O Lord our God, for the trust in theo. God dis∣perse an Army of Ten hundred thousand. When Jehosaphat feared and even fainted saying O Lord God, pi•••• thou not judg them, for we have no might against the great Comp••ny 〈…〉〈…〉 our against us, neither knowne what to do, ba•• our Eyes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 unto thee. How did God clear the Coasts of that formidable Army, without giving a stroak, for ye shall not need to fight at all, go down only to see the slain and take the prey; for God made Divisions between the Moab••es, Amonies and Ed••mites, that they destroy∣ed one another: in so much that Jehosaphat came but forth to see their slaughtered Bodies, and to take their rich Spoil and were three days in gathering i•• and could not carry it all away. 2 Chron. 20.25. When the Barbarians b••ak in with great Power against Theodosius, whose chief strength was Prayer; how did God on a sudden strike dead Ruges their Captain, and consumed the rest of their Army with Pestilence, and sire from Heaven. When the ••••••anians and the Jazi••es (then Heathens) brake into Vi••••••, with such Fury that they wasted a great part of the Country, and taking a multitude of Captives insomuch that ••••••us Niger e'end of paired to oppose them, how did God by the Apparition of Micha∣el the Arch Angel, so animate him and his Souldiers, that a very small Army fought against the successfully, yea, he stirred up the Captives to

break off their Chains, and fight magnanimously; and the Women which they had taken prisoners, frighted them with shouts, and their own Dogs which they brought with them, welcom'd the Polonians, and flew on their Masters, and by multitudes, worried them to pieces: [VVhat sudden, amasing and confounding Disappointments have the im∣placable Enemies of GOD's People found, when they have just brought their infernal Contrivances to perfection; and destroy'd them in a Mo∣ment: nor hath God, either in Scripture or History, used one Method twice: What his next means or Method will be, the one to their ever∣lasting Comfort will find, while the other to their eternal Confusion feel.] Oh then when our hearts tremble under Miseries, and our Eys are dimned with continual weeping, what an excellent thing is it to wrap up our selves in Gods Providence: He is powerful when we are impotent. He can, when we cannot. Which cannot.