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 furnace be, O believer when ſuch good company as mercy, preſerving and protecting mercy, is with thee? be aſſured, that when thou art in the furnace, preſerving mercy bears thee company. The three children afford us a noble inſtance of this. They were no ſooner caſt into the burning fiery furnace, but one like unto the ſon of God, bears them company. When they came out of the fire not one hair of their head (the moſt combuſtible thing about them) was either ſinged or hurt. If mercy, O believer, be in the Buſh no matter though hell's flames were in it too.

4. We have the greatneſs of the ſight intimate by this word, behold. Behold, a Buſh burned, and was not conſumed. Is it not a great ſight to ſee a combuſtible Buſh, green and freſh in the midſt of a burning fiery furnace? is it not a great ſight to ſee the church of Christ all in a flame, and yet walking. the three children, in the midſt thereof, without the least harm? Let hell and earth raiſe the hottest perſecution they can, yet the church of Chriſt will look as ſafe in the flames as the three noble Jews did when in the burning fiery furnace. Why not, becauſe her King will never leave her, nor forſake her. She coſt him too much to caſt out or reject her, notwithſtanding all her faults and failings. He will never forſake his poor Buſh.

5. And laſtly, We have the beholder of this great ſight. He is called Moſes. He is a typical Spectator of this typical repreſentation. Moſes beheld the burning Buſh with much affectionate concern; this is intimate in his turning aſide to behold it. So Jeſus Chriſt beholds his Buſh with an endeared concern. When he ſaw her like to be burnt up with the Flames of law and juſtice, he came and quenched the ſame with the purple ſtreams of his own bleſſed blood. Juſtice had a debt-bond upon the Buſh, and earneſtly craved the payment of the ſame. So the Lord Chriſt, becauſe no payment but that of