5,94. Verf. 2o. AnE tpsJtionupon the Boob of J o a. Chap. 37, very glimpfes . of it affonith ,, and leave us for dead, Rev. a, i6, r 7. Man mull dye before he can fee God and live ; his body muff be glorified before, he can bear that weight ofglory, which confiff;s in beholding the face of God, or, in knowinghim (inour proportion) os we are át.;ow s (r Cor. 13.1 2. ) But though (as the Ifraelites there laid of themfelves) we can- not hear God fpeak and live, yet cannot we fpeak to God and live, o-,.and not be (wallowed up I anfwer it inthefe three things. Firf , If a man fpeak to God, asquehioninghis dealings with him, or, as calling God to an account (which in fore fenceYob ,did, , and therein went be- yond his line) he fi all be (wallowed up. Secondly, If any man fpeak to God,, as prefurning that he can nompat,_fathom, and underfiand God, ór allthe dealings of God vairn zn.en, that m n shall furely be ¡wallowed up. The thoughts of God are a. ear tkaighits, a 4 his wale, . above our wages áto h gh as thv hea r'en is above the earth, ha. 5 5. 9. Tö :ly, if we fpeal..oGoi in our own name, or in a felf Figft. otonrß t, then alit, oc furely be ¡Wallowed up. yob (. as -we bav;: acquitted him before ) never attempted ro (peak to God in his own-, righreoufneffe, though he oftenmagnified his own ight-.ou;netfe both before and towards men. Woe to all the righteouïñelfe of man before the moil righteous God. But yob'was toobold ( according to the firíi anfwer ) in askingan account, or a reeton of God, concerning his sufferings ; there was his failing , and for that he received this check by Elihu, If bran fpeak, he fha!! befiva/!owrd sop, The meaneR,. the poo tl b It ving foul m ty come and B=eak and (peakboldly toGod in th name of J fu_R t brill ( Hob, .. 16.) Trus we maycome an.i w come, coming chits we (hall not be fwallowed up c' ich the M j fly, much l.:fie with the wrath or diCpleafure of God.. If coning thus we are f ,a towed up, it willbe only the love'and fav :u cal G d,` v i h :he gn oatife and kindneffe of God t Ard o "he fwi`tlowed t,p thus, will be the fweetetlmo-fel that ever we fwal +_, even pefea blefifednefle and life for eve -store. When once death' is fwal- Jawed up in viso y, and mo- -i ,llty oí` li'e , then, (hall we be fw allnwed tit) in glo y. And therefore whirro.ver t`e Lord dot; withus or ours in this vwerld, let up be ffenc.b fo: him, humbly.
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