Before [a]she travailed, she brought forth: and before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? shall the earth be brought forth in one [b]day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

Shall I [c]cause to travail, and not bring forth? shall I cause to bring forth, and shall be barren, saith thy God?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 66:7 Meaning, that the restoration of the Church should be so sudden and contrary to all men’s opinions, as when a woman is delivered before she looked for it, and that without pain in travail.
  2. Isaiah 66:8 This shall pass the capacity of man to see such a multitude that shall come up at once, meaning, under the preaching of the Gospel, whereof they that came up out of Babylon were a sign.
  3. Isaiah 66:9 Declaring hereby, that as in his power and providence women travailed and delivered, so he giveth the power to bring forth the Church at his time appointed.

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