316 Verf. 20. er.fn Éxpoftion tenon the Book of J e s, -Chap. 360 far off and remain in the lvildernefs, Holy David could not keep his heart (in thofe ditlrelTs)'from extravagant wifhes. David had the integrity of a dove (as he oftenpleaded before the Lord) andbeing dill :ell, he wi(hed alit) for the wings of a dove, that he might flee away, and get out of the reachof all thofe impen- dent calamities. How ufual is it for good men in bad dayes to breath out fuch ? one whiles that hehad never been born, rather than to fee fuch a day ; another willies he may diepre- fently, rather than live in fuch a day. When the Apollle 'ohnhad given the prophefie of dreadful judgments to come.upon the wic- ked world,or the world of wicked men,he prefently tells us what theirwitlhes or delires will be (Rev. 9. 6.) and in thofe dayes (hall men feck, death, and(hall notfind it, andshall define to die, and death (hall flee from them. Moil men flee death, that's a mifery ; but death fleeth from fome men, and that's a greater mifery. They are in theworfl of conditions who would have deathwhen death will not be had. Their lives are worfe than death who only with to die. What non-fenfe wifhes anddelires had they alto in the day of the Lords anger, mentioned in the fame book (Chap. 6. 16.) Who faid to the mountaines and to the rock!, fall on ass, andhide to from the face ofhim that fitteth on the throne, andfrom the wrath of the Lamb. It is poffible for good men fometimes to have flrange wifhes but O how lamentable are the wifhes of wicked men and unbelievers, who have no part nor intereil in Jefus Chrifl,in thofe times when Confcienceis wounded and a, wakened, or when a day of theLords wrath, or judgment from the Lord appeareth ! When Chriil the Lamb (ball fit upon the throne, and call them togive an account, O then they will with for rocks and mountaines to fall upon them, that they might not appear; how glad will they then be to be hidden with an ever- lafling night ! Theycannot buc>deáre the night, mho havefinned a- gaing light. Holy ,yob could not forbear to delire the night of death in the day of his diftrefs; what delires then muf4 the wick- cd have, who haveno hope beyond this life ! Again, as to the vanity of that defign of fotne in defiring the might for filcher, Note ; There is Nothing can coverue from the eye, orfecure tofrom the hand of God, What
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