SERMON.
O-O
Isiah liv. 5.
Thy Maker is thy Husband.
THE 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
