Chap, 36. ,/fn Expofation upan the Book çf Jn i3. 'Verf. I 2. 2e t Hence Note; The calls and commands ofGod are not alt'a'rs obeyed, no NOby goodmee, not by the righteoau. The call and command of God is not at all obeyed by the wicked, and it is not alwayes obeyed by the righteous. The righteous iometïrneshear the wo oi, bur do not amwet it, and fometimes they feel the rod, and do not attend it ; they cry out of the fmart of the rod, and of the fores which the lathes of the rod havemade upon them, they weep over, or becaufe of their fores, yet they do not prefently give glory to God by obeying him , and leaving their finnes , I mean as to that fpecial point of duty in which God would have them obey him, and as to thole fpecial fins which God by that aflii.&ion calls upon them to leave. Many good men do not prefently un- derftand the purpofe of God in this or that atlli&ion ; and while it is fo with them, they muff needs fail in anfwerablenefs to ir. I know every godlyman bath a general bent to obey God and ferve him. It is not with the godly in their affii &ions as with the wicked under theirs, ofwhom the Prophet fpeaks, (Ife, 9. r 3.) Theydid not turn to him thatfmote them; yet even fuch Scriptures are in a degreeapplicable ro many of the people of God, they do not always turn to him thatfmiteth them ; when they are exer- cited with variety of calamities, they mind not the Lord as they ought. Andhence it is (I fay) that though the righteous have a general bent to obedience, yet they fometinies come fhort of that obedience which a fpecial aff}ieîion or corre&ion calleth them to ; yea, they may be fofhort in anfwering it, that the Lord may proceed to lay heavier and greater afflidlions upon them, even to the taking of them out of the world, as it followeth in this verfe, If they obey not Theyfhall perifhby the fword. í3e earceree- Before they were bound in fetters andheld incords, but now ducenturad a-- the fword (hall overtake them, and they (hall perifh or be takena- cifionemgladij way by thefword: The Hebrew is, they fha1Z pafr away by the lAquin Per fword, that is, they (hall die. Man is Paid to pats away by the8eadi,r irr "f fword, when the fword loth not pafs by him, but finites and kills5,{µdia ;toms. him, which is a temporal perifhing. It is Paid Ufa. 57. 7) tut, Druf.
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