2.4 Chap. 2. An'Expoftion upotá the ,Book of j n B. VerC i o. may exernpiifie this in Chrif, Joh.18.i i.lhe. cupwhich my Father hatbgiven me, faith he,(hall I not drini,sit? It ispoculum charitatis, a grace-cup to poor linners, a cup thoughhitter in it felt, though mixt with the wrath of:God áß's a judge, due to`fìnners, yet tom- per'd and fwcetncd with a Fathers love everlaftingly aiúred unto me ; I cannot but drink it, it cometh frommy Father. Eut it may be objeffed,that I lately affign'd it as one .reafon,why Satan (pared jobs wife ; namely, That the who was his neereft friend, being made an infirunrent of his afliffion, the afHiftion might be more affliffive and vexatiousLi And David complains moil ofa friend that fmote him, Pfal. 55. I arifwer, when love turns to hatred, and friendenip tounfaith- fulnefs, when former kiffes (like that prefent one of Judas) arc changed into treachery ; this is very wounding andgrievous in- deed.Put.wiieri God ftrikes his friends,he is,their friend fülhwhen he afffrfts, it is in fàithfulne(s, (Pfäl. i i9.75.) He is good tous, -when he fends-us evil, and he fends us evil tor our good. To.be finitten by a friend whole very fmiting is :friendfhip, and Who heals us by wounding",' cannot heoffenfìve. -Hence Davids choice, Let us:f111 nor in'foa oe hands ofthe Ldrd (for his mercies ìfre great) and not into the hand ofman, o Satre. á4.. 14:. Hence a third oblervation from- the- firength of the argument and reafon, and may be thus framedtoc'onfider that all the good we have ," defends from God', makes it both _reafonable and equita- ble, that we fhoúld bear`e'vil quietly when he is pleafed to fenddit. Shall we receive'good a,tdnot evil 7 faith he. It is Soltmóns. ad- vice, (Ecelef. 7.14. ) In the day of profperity be Joyful , but in the day ofadverfity confider: What (hall we confider ? Confider this, and mark it well , that as the day of profperity was from God , fo the day of adverfity is from God likewife, for it fol- lows., God alfo loath let the one over- againff the - other. Therefore feting God hat-h let one Over agáiriff the other, thou mufif take the one well,as well as the other ; at leafs thou muff bear the latter as patiently,as thou did'ft receive the former joyfully.They whohave fhared with 'others in gains , think it but equall to (hare with them in'loffes ; they *let theone over agai- nft'the ether.- And 1h muff we in r fpef ofGods difpenfations towards-us. we -let our prefent wants over againti our fOrmer fulncfs, our- prefent forrows over - again£ our former comforts, our prefent lrcknefs over againft our former health, our prefent war over againft our former
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