-- Serin, 15. when Inw ard and outward Troubles meet ? 359 upon the spirit ; It is not all the fiormy winds upon the face of the earth but fume generated in the bowels thereof which makes tho earth (hake. 5. It arifeth from Satan, When the eye of Confcience is trop: open, Real. 5. he is molt bole to prefent,either that which may clofe it, or that which may trouble it; when the heart is molt tender he is moll ready to bruife and wound it. In afition he would make breaches between God and us, us and God, and us and our felves, ( if we mull needs be fenli ble of them) gulphs out of which there is no redemption ; he tempts us unto fin in profperity, and then for fin in adverfity, as we find in Yobs Cafe, even in thofe which he knows are out of his reach,(where leaft flrength and ground to do any thing there ; ) he is moll malicious, as it ap- pears in his bold attempts upon our Lord : If he cannot run : hee upon a rock, yet he will difquiet thee with a tempeil, if he cannot rob thee of thy grace, yet he will of thy peace and comfort. 6 It arifeth from the weaknefs of faith, and fir: ngth of fenfe, ap_ Re of. 6: prehending God in affliaionas our enemy, efpecially if there be force willing correfpondence between us and any thing which God hates, . God is a terrour to us. Thus Senfe wrought in lob 3 3 . i O. Behold,he f ndeth occafion againfl me, he counteth me for his ,enemy, (Alto 16. I 2, a.}.) and in the Church. Lam. 2. 4, 5. God bath bent his bow like an enemy, &c. and verf. 5. 01 if thou comefl to that of yacob, Gen. 42. 36. Surely all thefe things are againfl me, and in them God againfl:. me, it is fad with thee. This is the triumph of Faith If God 6e with ur, who can be againfi u ? This the fhreek of the Fainting, God t4. againft me, and then who can be for me ? 7. It arifeth from Gods withdrawing. Thus with (brill; when God. would make his condition fad,and his burden heav) indeed,theFather, and his own Divinity withdraw, and withhold their comfortable infla- ential prefence from the apprehv nfion of the Humane Nature ; and . when was he thus fpiritually aflltced? But when moil outward trouble came upon him, when his Murderers and the f rsytor were upon him, and his life drew near to the grave,as it was prefigured in David, when Pfal. xró. 3; the forrows or dangers of death corripaffed hint about,then the terrors of hell took hold upon hint, (i.e.) terrors arifing from this, the witth- drawing of the Divine Love and Countenance. Now come his aVroniw mark r4.34 fhing,difmaying fears and forrows,preffizg even to death,making him as it were to fhrink from the great work of his own mercy. Now he cries out as his Type, My God, my God, why haft thou forfaken me ? Pl t. 22. i. The perpetual Ihreek of themwhich are cafi away. When wean with Muth. 27. Did
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