Chap. 37. a r Expnftim upon the Book of © B. Verf. 7 . 5 6 3 can keep it from b e-kin; cue, The-re are Civil to:ws as well as natural,aand the fo: mer are muchmore troubleCome and d'ngcrous thanthe latter:God raife h thofe, flo nines in jfti ,tncn 11e fe,vt an evil Spirit between abtmclech and the nven of Sic hem ( Jidg. 9. 23.), 'That is, he either gave Satan (_hW gear niaHe of rni - rule.) leave tokindle jeahonfies & anirnof ties be.t« a the ,o. he gave them up to their own evil, enviousat.d malicious irI i s,tvhtch l:ur- tied themonto their ir:utual vexation and deí?rue. ion : noáv, as God raifeththefe flormsin judgment,fo h_ei:,ser_p.even..s or rebukes them in mercy. It is God who quiets both the sfririts of Princes in goverrieg, and the fi;irits ofpeople in fubrnitting and obeying.He bath a South wind,Cotneb'entgne and favourable wind, which he breathes upon the children of men, and then they ve quiet, and then all's quiet : God being quiet rowaards, that is well- pleated with, and tavourable unto man, he quiets all things, jr rángutt- If the Lord do but fay the word, what aorm, whatcempefl, what wrath, what rage, Whit outrage foever there is in the earth, all's huffit and Hill. Elibu affilned this flrongly when he psi that challengingquefbon (Chap. 34,.29.) When hegiver's quietnefs, who then can make trouble; whether againli a nationor a manon- ly ? Natural quietnels, much more civil, but above all fpiritual quiernefs is of the Lord. When there is the gretefl urquietnefs in the Air, and in the affaires of this word, When ,(as it is laid of thofe times, zChron. a 5. 5.), `There is no peace to him that goetb out, nor to him that comes in,-but great vexations are upon allthe inhabitants of the roan- tryes, men conronding withend (like heaffs) tearing, one another, yet even then there may be fpi iturl quiernefs .in the foul of a be- liever; he may fir (fill and unmoveable, in the. favour and love ofGod, though the earthbe moved ( yearemoved) and the hills carried into the midíl of the Sea. This is era7ite r dy the work of of God ; he can give quiernefs to the tenl in the rnid!l of all worldly unquietnefs. -Car % ffi to his clifciz, in them to all believers ohn t.6. e 3. ) 714f ;Ding; have .I fplken to you thatye might have peace; in the vivid ye quail have tr;bulation. The meaning of Chrift isnot to alltre his diïcirdes, than tbuy :lied have peace in him after they have had trribularion in the reo íd, but that their inward fpirìtual peace (hallSynchrbnize oT be con- temporary with their outward.worldlÿtribt lations. To have trou- C c c c a file
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