3. While the world stands God will have a church in it. Thou art from everlasting, and then we shall not die. The Israel of God shall not be extirpated, nor the name of Israel blotted out, though it may sometimes seem to be very near it; like the apostles (2 Cor. vi. 9), chastened, and not killed; chastened sorely, but not delivered over to death, Ps. cxviii. 18. See how the prophet infers the perpetuity of the church from the eternity of God; for Christ has said, Because I live, and therefore as long as I live, you shall live also, John xiv. 19. He is the rock on which the church is so firmly built that the gates of hell shall not, cannot, prevail against it. We shall not die.