chap. 3 3.. An Ezpoftion upon the 13o& of Jo a. Verf. 19. led forehead. Thou haft his anfwer his own way, therefore be fa- tistied, and doe not Band defiring that God would anfwer thee after thy way,nor complaining becaufe hedoth not. And we may reply not onlj to obllinate fanners, but to mane of the people of God, when they enquire what themind of God is, or what he in- tends towards them. His providences give you many items and memorandums ; which if you can fpell out and read you may know his ring. This leifon,thefrgnification of the word offe- reth us as?.conneaion of the words offered in the fo:mer. Thirdly, learn hence. àn is apoor crazy creature fubjeE to all elifeafes and infer- mities. 341 Yea,he is not only fubje& to them,but he is the fubjeot of them. Hisbody is as it were aveffell of naturall'corruption, as his foul is a veffell of morali corruption. Man is called not only44m, noting the matter of which he was made,earth, red earth ; but he iscalled Enofh,that is, forrowfull, fighing, groaningman, he is a pinedand a pining man : He is alto called Abel, vanity, apoor vain man ; which two latter Titles have befallen man fince man fell fromGod.' Fourthly, (-which-may check the sroffe Atheif toofmany) Obferve. Pain andfcloiefe cement by chance, nor grew toflay in na-- tarefor thecaufe oftheir coming. Theycomenot at all by chance, nor doe they comealtogether fromnaturali caufes. Nature bath fomewhat to doe in their corn- ing,but fomewhatelfe muchmore, even fo much more,that in re- fpea of that,naturallconfiderations may quite(hutout,and the whole caufe afcribed to that. But what is that ? Surely, nothing elfebut, and nothing leffe then thewill of God. He is pleafed to give commiffion to pains and fickneffes, and then they come. . lihu would teach yob (what he owned before) that God was the fenderandorderer ofall his afflictions, asofthe lofafeshe had inhis ellateand children, fo of the pains and fickneffes which he felt inhis body. t.Nefer tells thechildrenofIfrael, not only that fwordand captivity, but the Peftilence, Confumptions, Feavers, and burningAguesare fent by God himfeLf, (Dëxt. 28, 21, S2.),
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