446 Chap. 33. An Expoftran upon the Boofeof Jos, VYerf..z.7, up, todeclare what God hach done both for foule and body, that others may be bettered by their experiences. But I fhai1not flayupon this, becaufeour tranflacion ( which is cleare and fafe ) runs another way, making the antecedent to this he, tobeGod ; He, that is, God looketh upon men, andfaith, Ifany fay, Ihavefinned, and have perverted that which is right,andat pro- fited me not, Then (as it followeth) He will deliver himfromgoin down to the pit, and his life (hall fee the light. The fence of the context inGenerall, isplaine ; God looketh upon men , and ifhe feeth them penitent, he willhave mercy upon them,and deliver them, or give them that which is better then bodily deliverance. More diltinaly. Ile looketh upon men. It is the work of God at all times to look upon men ; and he looketh fo upon all men, as if he had but oneman to look upon. His look upon men is not a bare look, but a confidering, and an obferving look. fie fo looks uponmen, that he looks through them. He looks upon them, and takes notice what they are, how -it is with them, what they are doing, and at what they are dri- ving. He looks upon them to confider both the frame of their hearts, and the courfe of their lives ; yea his looking js an ex- peEling : he fo looketh upon man, as looking for fomewhat from man, or as defiring to fee fomewhat in him. Though God hath no need ofus, nor ofany thing we candoe, yet he looketh, wait- eth, or hath an expe&ation, of fomewhat to be done by us. He looketh upon fickmen,to fee how they take it;withwhatpatience they beare affliEtion, what the workitigs of their hearts are, what their repentings, what the aOlings of their faith ; fuch things as there the Lord looketh for frommoll men, moftiy from men un- der the rod,under fad & forrowfull difpenfations. And the words following fhew what it is exprefíely which the Lord looketh for. Yet before Iopen them, note in general!. God loves to feeoccafionof doinggood to man. What we love to doe, we love the opportunities of doing ir. The Lord is good,and he loveth to doe good,and therefore he is expreffed as one troubled when he wants,& as one pleafed when he hath the occafons of doing it.Wemayytakeup that fence emi- nently
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