Chap. 2. An Expofition upon the Bookof J O B. 'Vert: io. 293 I muft receive it quietly , for he fends it jullly. Secondly, be- cauCe of the affured faithfulnefs, and love and goodnefs of God to his, even when he fends them (which are all he fends; this fort. ofevils. As if Job had laid , ally thing is welcom that cometh from one that loves me, and hath done me good, as God I know doth, and hath done often , and will do tor ever. Will not a man take. a nominal evil kindly at his hand , from whom he bath received much real good. While we look only upon creatures and what they do, the burthen of trouble is intolierable; but as it cometh from God, from a God that loveth us, we cannot but receive it in love. Afflictions coming from the creature, as are the rod of Mofes upon theground, a biting, a 'tinging Serpent but confiderèd in the hand ofGod, they are as the Serpent in the hand ofMoles , a rod to coned, and a ílaffe to comfort us. Da- vidwe. know fled fróm Saul in fear of his lice; . envious, bloody, ,Saul had threatned to kill, him. .Inhis flight , David Meets with his beloved Jonathan, and faith unto him (i Sam. 20. 8.) Jo- nathan, if there be any iniquity in me , flayme thy felf , for why fhouldit thou bringrne. tq tl >y, Futher ? He would dye rather by the handof Jon aa,theu by the handofSart/ .,death from the hand of Jonathan who loved, him, was Tweet .; -whereas from Sául, it had been.a:bitter cup,inaeed. Take another infiance. Elijah fly- eth from Jezabel;. i - King. 1..9.4.: and why doth he file from her ? She feeki my life, faith he, to take it away. Thoughts of this pref -. fed hirn to hard, that when he cTme into the Vo ildernel ( the Text _ -faith ) he fate .down under a Juniper t,ce, and tecluefted for hirnfelf that he might die, andfaid , It, it enough now O Lord, takeaway my life. But Elijah, if-thou be fo willing todie, why doit thou fly from Jezabel?íhewouldhave given-thee thy with pref nit- ly, and fatisfied at once her own malice, and thy longing; i but death from the hand of a Jezabel, was his fears not his delire : Fie could welcome it from the handof God, but not from the hand of a fpightful woman. But you will fay,. death isfrom the hand of' God,though it 'come by the hand ofthe creature. True,but as eve- ry good we receive, is fo much the more Tweet, by howmuch the more we fee ofxhe,hand of Godin .it,and lets of thecreature;fo e- very-evil isfo;much.t.he_ìiiore bitter, by howmuch we tee lets of God, and more of,tnan in it. IfGod will take away my life, I am pleafed,but Ibeg;deliverance from the hand of Jezabel He fled for his life for fear of Je.zabel; but -he calleth upon Goa to
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