Chap. Expofition upon the Bork of J 0.B. Vert-. 25'. 471, go neareft their hearts, who have put them farthett offbefore they came. Hence obferve in the fecond place, That the more preparing fear we have before troubles come,' the left we areprefi with fears when trouble comes. If we confider job, how unmoveably he flood the charge and aífaultof thefe affliEti- ons, howhe wreftled withall the diftrefles, which at once took hold of him, we are to look (next to the fupport he had immedi- ately fromChrift) to this wife caution of his, that he feared fetch a formmight overtake him before he got to his journeys end ; He thought thefe things might come , and therefore laid in pro- vifion Graisa ef!' for them againft they carne. Thofe blows wound deepen vuinus quad which we expe6t not. Dangers unknown do eafrly furprize us non expegauxr,.. and opprefs us , whereas thofe which we fear and thinkof, may r ula egr.'ot either beprevented in their coming , or we may be provided a- tolorantur, gainftthey come. That which the Naturalifis fayof the Coeka- quibsarhomo J fo trice, that if the Cockatrice fee a man firth, the man.dyeth, butif feufAr' theman feeth the Cockatrice firft, the Cockatricedies, is an ex- perienced truth , refpeding the point we have in hand , that if troubles fee us first, we dye, but ifwe fee them-firsi. they dye,that is, their fling and firength (as to us) is much abated. Dangers are moltfelt where theyare not-fore-fan , andfometime being fore feen , they are not felt at all : For a prepared expectation (loth. either weaken them's or firengthen us, make usmore able tó fu- ¡lain them , or them lets able to hurt us ; whereas indeed every crofs which findeth us fecure,hath an advantage to leave us defpj- rate. When Nabal heard ofdanger paft, whichhe never dreamt might come, ,his heart dyed in him like-a- _gone, (r. Sam. 25 . )' How then had he been aftonithed into ftone ,, if he had fem. the evil falling upon him.? Such can ill bear, trouble, who look for nothing but comfort. It was an addition to the afiction of that aftlicted, people , (Ier..a. 15.) When they looked for peace,._ but no good came, and for a timeof health, andbehold trouble. If they who are in trouble , are more troubled when they cannot have the peace they looked for:, then furely theymuff be more perplext with trouble (when itcomes) who enjoying peace, ne- ver.had a thought that trouble would come. When a . people are_ fó far from looking for evil, that they look, for nothing but good, and build upon it,that they {hall never fee forrow, then to fee for row isa killing fight. The forrows of Babylon (hall be mightily; in;reafedand augmented, douhled.and trebled uponher, because. when
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