Chap. 36. e.Arn zxpofstion upon the Book of o B. Veg. 19, 3 t f that will help you, your only help is in repentance and felf-huaa- bling before God. Will be enter thy richer ? no, notgold, nor all the forces offirenth._ Hence note ; There is no f rength againJT the Lord. As there is vo soarfcl, fo noforce of frengthagainft the Lord. Hannah fang,,this truth (a Sam. 2.9.) By trength (hall no man prevail, that is, againfl man, if God be with him ; much more is it true that by Ifrengrh fhall no man prevail again{} God (Ifa. 1.3 r .)The f rong {hall be tow,and the m,*er thereofat a fpark, that is, as forne expound, their Idols, whom they made their f}rength, (hall be as row,that is, as the moil- combulible matter,eafily con - fumed, and the maker ofit, chat is, the Idol-maker, (hail be as a fpark.Do but blow a fpark among tow,and what will become of ir? such are the f rongeft idols, in which men truft, and fuch are the mightyeft and f}ronge( men before the Lord, who rruil in them. Tow or flax or hemp (after the drefling)is as tinder, that the leaf{" fpark will give fire toThe f(rotag ([dol) (hall be as tow,and the maker air as a fpark ; ór, whichis in effea the fame, The flrong (man)(hall he tow,and that whichhebath wade,or(as we put in the Margin)his work, that Is, his Idol,fall be as afpark,,and they Mall bothburn, or peri(h together. This is the ['sentence of the Lord a- gain(} the f}rong, a 1park (hall let them on fire and burn them ; how then (hall the (irongbe able to Hand before the Lord who is nor a (park, but a fire, and char a confurning fire ? and therefore, I may urge Vibe's counfelto fob, upon all forts ofren,upon thole efpecially whoperfil in any fin, take heed, becaufe there is wrath, beware, d.c, or I may urge themwirh the Prophets dehortariora (fir. g. z 3. ) Let not thewife may glory in his willow, nor the mightyman in hisfirenQth, nor the richmar, in his aches, for, none of there canhelpor deliver from wrath, only JellsChrif} can, and it hash been (hewedwho they are to whom he will not be a deli- vering ranlome. It may be very 'ireful to confider what negatives Ebhoe puts upon (innersas to deliverance from kindled wrath; not riches, not honour, not crying, notpraying, nor f}rength, not de- fence can deliver without turning frog( fin to God , and all itr Chrifl. Ebtk
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