680 Chap. 41. ',fin Expoftianupon"theBook of J o a. Verf. 8.; Chria. There are two things which we Could be very much in remembering. FirfI, Our duty (Ecclef, ta. a.) Remember now thyCreator in the days of thy youth. Secondly, Our danger; or,take both together, what danger duty may engage us in; elfe when danger comes we !hall loon forfake our duty. Many take upa profelfion of Chrill who never thought of the danger,of the rryals, afflictions and temptations,which might befallthem for his fake ; they remembred not the battle, and fo have either prefently been overcome and fallen in it, or have unworthily forfaken their colours,and runfrom it. Secondly, Note-;, It is bcf not todo, or foî,bear to do thatwhich we cannot btwt fee (ifwehave our eyes in oar heads) will be dangerous to eta in the doing. 'We are not always to forbear the doing of 'chore things that will be dangerous to our outward man (for fo the belt things may be ) but thole things that will be dangerous to our bodies and fouls too,awe mull always for bear to do ; in all fuch cafes it is our duty to remember the battle, and do no more. Will any wife man engage in danger which can produce no profit ? There are Tome things which we are to do, and do again,though our dan- ger be never fo great, yea, though we lofe our lives in doing them But there are many chinos we may not do if we fore-fee danger. The ApofflePaul (("4Els 2,7. 9, io.) being at fea, Paid I, perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only to the ladingof the fhtp, bat to our lives alfo; therefore he tells them (ver. 2i..) Sirs ,yeAwl(have harkened to me, and not have loafed from Crete, and. tohave gained thin harmandlofs; that had been their wifdom, when they were warned of the danger, not to have gone on. When there is danger to our bodies only, and we fee no benefit that may countervail the danger, 'tis folly to p-oceed. T may urge this point fpecially in cafe of fin: Take heedof doing atfy thing, that is evil; remember the battle that fin will b. ing you to. Sin will bring you to a.terrible battle, to fuch a battle as no man can hand in or ¿cape. Sin brings to a battle infinitely more dangerous than that with Leviathan. Sin pro- vokes. God to battle ; and whenGod is angry, wemay more fafely come( with ten thoufand Leviathans, than with him.. Whenyou are.
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