17 Chap. 32. do Fxpofttion up,n the Bookof JO B. Verf. 18, ver, were their portion. He filled them, and they rebelled againft him ; He beftowed many benefits upon them, which they abufed to ferve their lufts, and vainly triumphed in what he freely gave t ; m, as if they had been fpoyles forcibly taken from him, Hence OVerve ; firft, Tk-at God d,th them good that are evil!. thrift perfwaded his hearers (and its in them) upon this ac- count to love their enemies, That they and we might be the chil- dren cffnrfather which is in heaven ; Forhe maketh b:s Sanne to rife on the eviland on the 6cod, and fexdeeh raine on the frill, andon . the unjtefl (Matth. 5.45) As Godbath fome peculiar people, fo bath fòme peculiar Neilïngs,and good things,which the world in common flares not in, but he hath a fort of bleffings,and good things, which are the common (hare of the world; raine and Sunne, fat and tweet, Gold and filver are filch good things as tladir hearts and houles are often filled with, whofe hearts and houles are empty of goodneffe. Thefe good. things God gives them, who knowno more why he gives them; then they did, why he did,not fuddenly bring evil' upon them, of . whom the Apoftle'peaks ( Ram. 2. 4.) Derpifek'thou the riches of s.3goodneffe, andforbearance, and long-fufering, not knowing that thegoodntfre of God leadeth thee to repentance ; when God doch good to thofe thatare evil,whether it be by beftowinggood up nn them,or by withholding evill,He.doth it ufually forone of or bothdiet. regions. Fíßft, That they might repent and live; knoweft thou not- what Meffage the goodneffeofGodbrings ?Speaks it not thus ? Repent, repent .; yea doth not divine goodneffe ( taking thee by the hand) kade thee to repentance? Secondly, The Lord loth them good who continue in the . evil!. of finne , that they might be left inexorable when the evill of wrath and puni(i;'tment falls upon them ; every mouth 1hall be flopped, and all theworld of wicked ones become guil- ty before God, when they remember that they finned , and went onto finne avainft the God that fed them, againft the God that cloathed them, againft the God that filled their hoofer. zsthgoadthings, and proteeted theta, in the life and injoyment
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