fer(. a'6. 64n E.t'poftion upon the Book of J o B. Chap. 3p. rational ground why he tllouid not fear. Fear will not be blown away with a breath Our paffions are never truly quieted nor attempered but by reafon. Upon what ground then would Chrifi take off. 7efins fear, even upon this in the Text-, I am the firFt and the . As if he had faid, john why doe(i thou fear ? knowe(l thou not who I am,what a Lord and Mauler thou fervett? Why, I ob?o, I tell thee, I am thefirsand the laß ; and therefore thou mayea be lute, I will domy work, and none Iball lets me. John had wonderfull things in ' vifìon ; ilh?ll all there be done thought he ? yea, faith Chri(}, Fear not, I will carry on my cle- f-lanes ( all the defignes that Chri(i had in the world were then in vision ) Eternity triumphs over all difficulries ; The Eternal) will fee the lati man born, (as we fay ) he will have the lag word, and the la(I blow. I am thefirilb and the last. Lafily , From this Confideration of God, let us take a profpea of our felves , what poor fhort- lived fhort- breathed Crearures we are. There is no fearching out the number ofthe years of God, but we may quickly (earth out the number of our own years; our life is but a fpan long, (Pfal. 39. 5. ) yea our age is nothing before God. Did we confider the eternityof God , what (hould we judge of our (pan-long life ? we are faid to be of yeflerday. Some expreffe man thus ; He is yeferday ; as if he were not to day, but were already pal+ while he is. The bets that can be faid of him is this ; he is at ofyeflerdey,and poflibly he (hall not have a to morrow : but the Lord is for ever and ever the fame. And though we are thort-lived as to this world, though our years may foon be told over, yet let us remember that God path called us to the participation of eternity ; thoughwe have not the eternity of God, which is without beginning, yet we (hall have an eternity fromGod without end; everyman is everlafîing as to his foul. The godly (hall be blefied for ever ; and there is an eternal e(iate of wo and tnifery to the wicked, the number of the years of their forrows and fuferings, who live and die without Chrifi, cannot be fearched out. The number of the years ®f the joy and bleifednefs, and rea and happinefs, and tranquility of thole that believe, of thole that are faithful!, of thoCe that are godly, of thofe that walk with and fear God, I fay the number of the years of their joy and happinefs cannot be fearched out nei- ther. No mate cannumber or tell how lonerla(iing the felicity of Saints
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