Chap. 2. An Fxpofitionupon the Boof¿of J OB. Vert. 9. 285 we mutt not with thatneither abfolutely.. TheApofflePaul, Phil. a, 2,3. defired to be rliffolved, and to be with Cbrift; yct you fee howhe qualifies and debates it. To with for death, that we may be freed from fin, is a holy with ; but yet we mull not with that ab- folutely neither, we muff refer our (elves to the pleafure of God, how longhe will let us confliC with our corruptions, and with our lulls, with this body of death and tin which we bear about us. But -towith for death,becaufe our lives are full oftrouble,is an un- holy with; God may, yea and hathas much ufe ofover lives in our troubles as in our comforts : We may do much bufinrsfor God in a fickbed :. We may do God as much work when we are bound hand and foot in a prifon, as when we are at liberty; paffive obe- dience brings as much Glory to God as alive doth : therefore we .anuli not with for death, efpecially not with anábfolute with, be- caufe we are under troublefom.evils. And it it be fìnfúl to wifh.for death, howwicked is it to procure or haften death, to pull down our houle ofclay withour own hands, becaufewe are under trou- blefom evils ? Fourthly, Obferve further, Satan wouldperfwade that death is an end, at leaft an ear e, of outward troubles : Wouldfl thou have an end of thy troubles, and of thy forrows ? Curfe God and dye, here is the remedy. We fay indeed of fome remedies, that they are work then the difeafe ; but I am lure this is. Death to ungodly . ones it is fo far from being an end or an cafe of their troubles,that it is to them (as Chrili. fpeaks in another cafe). the beginning of. forrows, the entrance to eternal death, and the -very Suburbs of Dell. Yet,howmany dothSatan perfwade (when they are inJobs cafe, ingreat extremities) that death will be the cure/of all their troubles ! ,Fifthly, Obfcrve,_ That Satan would male men willing to dye, when they are moil- unfit to dye. You fee what preparation Satan directs jobunto,, he, biddeth him curfe God and dye. Would not Job, thinkyou, have been in a fit poilure, in a fit frame for death, whenhehad been curlingGod ?Repent anddie,pray and die,.hum- ble thy (elf and die, believe and die, take, fait holdof Chrift, who ïr our life, our way to life, and die, ,are the counfelstnd, voice-of the Holy Ghofl s: but Satdn,r language is, cu f God anal dye, fin and die, be impenitent and die, blafpheme and die: And it is anexpe- rienced Truth,that oftentimes they fecmmoll willing to dye,who are molt unfit, molt unready for death ; you ¡hall fee fore men veñwrings.
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