232_ verc a3,, an Expofition upon the Eookof J O B. Chap.2. when they do a thing, or are moved byothers to do it and by per- fwations are fotnetimes prevailed with, to do that which they in- tended not an hour before. So God is laid to do a thing upon mo- tion, though he intended it from eternity, often defcending to ex- prefs himfelfby that which is common to men, though, his man- ner ofdoing it be tranfcendent infinitely beyond men. From the force ofthisword fo cxplained,7hou movedff me againfi hirn,Obferve, That Satan is an earneft and importunatefollicitouragainff the peo- ple andChurch ofGod; he without cealing provokes Cod againf# them,he bends his wits, anddraines his language to the height, in pleading againíl them, to get them deliveredup into his hands, or into the hands ofhis inttruments. And if Satan be thus zealous, fo importunate a folicitour a- gainfi the Saints ; it may teach us to be as camel and zealous for the Saints. Satan doth not only move, E?ut he moveth by argu- ments, he incites s It is not enough to pray by propofing our de- fires, but we mutt pray enforcing andpreffing our delires ; fuch a holy unquietnefsoffpirit, as is expreilèd by the Prophet,/fa. 62. 1. For ZionsJ.ake willl not bold mypeace, andfor Jerufalems fake will Inot refi, &c. Such was that required of the Watch-menJet upon walls ofJcrufalem, which fhouldnever bold theirpeace day nor night: Tethat make mention of the Lord,orye that are the Lords reinembran- cers, keep notflence, andgive hint no refftill be effabliJh, and till he make Jerufalema praife in the earth, Ifa. 6z verf. 6, 7. This du- ty is now doubled on us by the great afflictions and greater fears of Sian. When Chrift was in his agony, he prayed more carnal- ly, Luk, 22. 44. And whenhis Church is in an agony, we ought topray more carnally. At fuch a time we mull mingle more lire with our prayers, we mutt pray more fervently. At fuch a time we mull mingle more water with our prayers , we mutt pray more repentingly a we mutt with Jacob (Ho/1.1z.) weep and make fnp- plication. At fuch a time we mutt mingle more faith with our prayers, we mull pray more bcleivingly. In word, at fuch a time, every Prayer mull be a pleading, yea a wreflling with God ; a wreftling with refolution not to let him go until we have got a bleßïng, till we prevail with God to detlroy his Churches Ene - mies, as Satan in the Text moved God todefiroyyob, his fervent and hisfriend. Soit followcs, Thou movedff me againff him to defffroy him. To
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