When God stirs up Himself, and begins to cry and roar, it is that He may bring forth deliverance for His people.
Man naturally is earth-like, a heavy and lumpish piece, being taken out of the Earth, and the offspring of red Earth.
The Word of God is prepared by the Almighty, a fit means to break in pieces the stony, and rocky hearts of sinners.
The Lord Jesus elegantly expresseth his own excellency, by comparing himself unto a Rose, the Rose of Sharon.
Christ in his humiliation was abased so low, as to be in subjection to the Father.
