3 30 Nerf.zT. (n Expo/tiootapontheBoob of J o B. Chap. 36 have brought in ? what have you got by your malice, by your wrath, by your conformityand compliance with the 41,'W ld ? have threeb ought you in any advantage ? are you bettered by them ? what fruit have you of thole things, whereof you are now aíharn- ed ? Let us therefore often confider Mofes`s choyce ( Beb. II. a. g.) Mofes was a wile and a holy man ; and what did he ? He chofe rather tofuffer a iinion with the people ofGod, then to enjoy thepleafasres offin for a feafrn, Herein cry your fpirits. Chriff let two things before CMofes; Come, (Motes, here'saffliaion, you mull be afiéled,and afkli&ed with the people of God (which are the greatefl afllic`lions , you fhall be fure to be lathed with the lmarteït foarefl Rod in their Company) or here is Egypt, and all the contentments that fin can give ; which will you have Mofes? O give me'affli6lionswith the people ofGod ( faidMo- les) Let the world ruffle and rant in the pleafures of fin for a fea- fon, for my part I will have affliilion, Ogive me afïiielion. In this choyce difofes approved himfelf a wife man, and underflood his good. So did the Martyrs. Come, will you have a p:ifon, o: deny Chrifl ? a Halter, or forfake the Faith ? will you into this fire, or will youcommit that iniqvity ? O ;ay they, give us Priions, Halters, Fires, rather than conform to your wrckednefs, Remember this Point, this is a needful Point for usarall times, Ï>would adde thee three things further about ir. Chufe afHì- ¿lion rather than fin; why ? Firfl, Becaufe fin is worfe than all af$i&ion. Secondly, Be- caufe fin is the Sting of all afil&ion. If you are in an affii6led condition, and your conciences cell you you have been bale, vile, complying with the World, and diffembling or falfe-hearted with God ; if your hearts tell you, you have been rotren at the heart, this will be the fling of your afflie}ions. What is the fling of death ? The Apoi'lle anfwers (t Cor. I g. 56.) Thefling of death is fin. Would a man chufe a king ? Surely you chufe a fling when you chufe n,and chat which will aflii6 ycu beyond all your of fi lions. Thirdly., Sin is worfe than <flíi&ion,for when God would de- clare his feverefl wrath, and bí ing the grearefl afflielion upen the children of men, when he refolves ro a& a perloa or a people to the urmofl, he dorh nor fay, I ,v ill make this man a. poor man, or I will fend plague, or ficknefs, Or famine among this people, but
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