chap.3. An Expofition upon the Bookof J O B. VerC:i 3; 3.9$,A Secondly, We mayoblerve concerning man in his birth; what a helplefs creature man is. If I (faithyob) had been left a little, I had been gone quickly,therehad been an end ofme : I could not have helped my felt', it the knees had not prevented me, if the breafls had not given me fuck, if I had been, deflituteof the füc- cours then prefently I fh'ould have beenfree among the dead,lAmid, have been quiet andgone into frlence. Thirdly , Obferve, , Thot every ffep oflife Hands in need ofa f ep ofmee cy, When the Infant is conceived , there mull be an ad ofmercy to quicken it, -an aft ofinercy to nourifh it in the womb; awa t of mercy. for the birth, an adofmercy being born to take it upon the knee, an ad ofmercy tobind it up, an ad ofmercy to-give it fuck. The beginningofour lives, and the progrefs of our lives,our generati- on and our prefervation call for acts ofmercy, or elfe (poor crea- tures as we are) we quickly perifh and return unto our duff. We owe our lives to Godat fìrii, and we' owe them every moment ; ifhe did not renewmercy every moment , we could not continue . life one-moment AS it is with our fpi_ritual lift, fo it is with our natural Our liver are hidwith Cbriff in God, Col ;. 3.3. `Ofand from our Rives we cannot fubfff , either in Grace or Nature. Ir. £oilorvcs ; For now fhouldl have lienHill -; and been quiet, 1Thou:d have flept ; then had lbi en at refl. Thefe words are anenlargement of the former reafon,taken from a defcription of the fiate and condition ofthe dead ;' For non' (faith jab) Ifhouldhave lien hill :. Ifyou Ihould ask'me a reafon ofmy former reafon , why I was foangry with that dayor night wherein I was conceived and bornn,whereinl had-that to me un- acceptable) mercy to be preferved and kept alive? This I fubjoyn for thereafon of it , ifnone of thole unwelcome favours or natural rights had been done me, then , I bail lienfill; I. h d been quiet, have , I had been at yell ; Either Lihould have been as one that never was, or .I fhauld have been at reít aud-quiet. The Argument lies thus ; refit and quiet are defirable things;; bat . death, in the omiflionof thole fuccors,' would have-'given me refs, therefore I defirethofeftccors-had been omitted. Fhisconclufiou is in theeleventh and twelfth verfes,wh,ich we heard before. The afïumption is in.thisthirteent-h - verfe, which he further confirms fir
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