Chap. 33. An Expofition upon the Bookof J o B, Verf, ra}. 279 will to come. Sure enough man bath a will not to come, he bath not only an inabillity,but anenmity andan oppofition in his will againfl Chi ifl:he will not come toChrifa that he may be faved,but would take uphisfalvation fomewhere elfe ; he would be his own Saviour,or let any one fave him, rather then be faved byChrifa ; all things conlidered, efpecially this, that he mufa deny himfeif, and neither be found trullingtohis own rìghteoufneife,nor aging any unrighteoufneffe, if hedelires to be favedby Chrifa. And as there is a refillance in the will ofman againla the true difpen,ation of Gofpell grace ; fo against any other difpenfation wherebyGod fpeaketh to him. The unchanged will of man rifeth upagain(} the will of God manifefled in his works, as much as against his will manifefled in his word (Ifa. 26. r e.) Lord, when thy hand is liftedup they will not fee. If his hand be lifted up in publick judg- ments they will not fee it, if in family or perfonall judgments and afflictions they will not fee ir, but Phut their eyes and hoodwink their own underflandings. Yea, they are oftentimes fo wilfully, or rather fo madly blind, that theyhad rather fay it is the hand of blind Fortune,then the hand of the.Allmightyand All- feeing God. Now who isle blind as they that will not fee ? Till this rebellion againfl the holy will of God with which the will of man is filled be call out and fubdued, let him fpeake once, yea twice, let him fpeake byword or works, by promifes or by threatnings, bygood or evil!, yet man will not mark ir.Thus much in generall of Gods revealing himfeif toman ; In the next words we have the diflina wayes fet down by' and in, which he;revealeth himfelf: In a drearne fie: z
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