47o Chap. 3 3. An E.vpfftio,e upon the Book of J o B. Verf.30 .. whom God remembreth no more, and theyare cut offrom thy hand, ( Pfal: 88. 5.) They that are neere the pit of death, are nor, much, improperly, called dead, and they that being in fuclifa de- fperate cafe are kept from going dome to the pit,ire nor,much, improperly fayd to be brought back from the pir,or pulled out of ir. In which -fence-we may keep to our owne reading ; and fo to - bring backhisfoulefrom thepet , notes only the extreame danger whereinhe was, whether fpirituall or temporali, and Gods Ara cioufnefs in delivering him from it. Hence note. when God ref ores amanout ofany defperate condition, whether offoule or body, he¡Ives him a new life he brings him in one. refpell backfrom thegrave, and ire another from hell. Pis a fickman, he is brought from the grave, and as a framer he isbroug-t fromhell. Great deliverances are akind of new crew- lion ; And fre(h ble(lìngs are to us asfrefh beings. Take theft: two inferences from it. Firfl, How fhonld they, wh© havebeen under great outward affliEions,praife the Lord when they are delivered I They who Ira- 'ving hadthe fentence of death in themfelves, fhould look upon themfelves when reflored , as men raifed from the dead. And how (hould fanners praife the Lord,whenhehash reconciled there to himfelfe, and pardoned their fins. In doing this for them, he delivereth them fromwrath, fromhell, and from eternal( death. Let fuch praife the name of the Lord, and fay, as in the text, He loath deliveredour foulesfrom thepit. Secondly, Ler fuch live unto God,having received a new life fromGod ; They that have received anew temporal( life from God, ought to dedicate it unto God ; how much more they that have received new fpirituall life ? They that have receivedat in- deed, cannot but dedicate it unto God. This negative mercy calls aloud for all that we are or have tobe givenup to God, but that poltive mercy which followeth, calleth yet lowder for it. cAfxd to be enikhtned with the light of the'living, 'Yemen VIM Take it for temporal!, fpirituall, or eternal! life, all thefe ends vonfumiturpro guibuflibet ho are accomplifhed in thofe merciful! workes of God topoore fin- mi,tibushacvi- ners ; fax refiraine the text to the light of this temporal! life, to fiuuntibu,, others
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