2 Chronicles 23

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXIII.—God will not suffer the fulfilment of his promise to be too long interrupted. And it is a great mercy in critical times to have one of great prudence, piety, fidelity, courage, and influence, to be principal director. How astonishing is it to see religion and liberty all at once covered from the wrecks of ruin! But is there any thing too hard for the Lord? How mad for their opposers to rush headlong into immediate destruction! But hopeful is the view when idols are destroyed, idolaters ashamed, the true worship of God regularly established, and his worshippers first giving themselves to the Lord, and afterwards to magistrates and ministers, and to one another, by the will of God!