Serm.6. MOMAiiiiia&StiaMahion HowMilliners or Chriflian Friends may , and ought to apply them- felves to SickPerfons,for their good,and the di fcharge of their ownConscience ? Job 33.23,24. If there bea meffenger withhim, an interpreter, one among a tboufand, to thew unto man htx upright- nef ; thenhe ifgracious unto him,and faith,Deli- ver himfromgoingdown into thepit, I havefound . a ranfom. Hefe words are part of Elihu's difcourfe uttered' by way of Reprehenhion and Convidlion to Tob,and by way of Vindication and Apology for God in his dealings with men ; and although he pre:nifeth this, that God giveth no account of his matters, ver.I 3. yet he loth ex abandanti,_ give an account for God, and makes a defence, or gives a rationale of Gods proceedings with men, &c. where he (hews that it is not mans tor- ment or ruine that God de(ìres, but his refourr ation and amendment and that it may appear hoN fincerely and fervently he delires ir, he it-hews that there arefeveral waics and means which God ufeth, which are moll powerft-1 and likely toproduce ir. a. He fpeaks to men in drearns,ver.i 2. (When chat will not do) by a iióions,ver,19) c. , To i17
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