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liv. 5. Thy Maker is thy Husband.

HE prophet Iſaiah having largely diſconrſed

of the ſufferings of Christ, and the bleſſed fruits

and effects of them; among which, one is, that he

ſhould have a numerous feed to believe on him;

and that, when the Jews reject him, the Gentiles

ſhould gladly receive him: and thus foreſeeing,

by the ſpirit of prophesy, the glorious ſtate of

the Gentile church, he breaks forth into a ſong

of triumph in the beginning of this chapter; where

the prophet directs his ſpecch to the church and

ſpouſe of God in theſe words, "Sing, O barren,

thou that didſt not bear; break forth into ſinging,

and cry aloud, thou that didſt not travail with child:

for more are the children ut the deſolate than the

children of the married wife, ſaith the Lord."—

Where we have a magnificent and glorious promiſe

of the fertility and felicity of the Gentile church;

and this is enlarged to the fifth verſe. which con-

tains the word of our text; where we have the

reaſon of her happineſs and fruitfulneſs who was

formerly a barren widow, "For thy Maker is

thy Huſband" He who made thee out of nothing,

and therefore can eaſly fulfil all theſe promiſes,

how unlikely foever they ſeem to be; he who

made thee a people, yea; which is more, who made