, 232 ,Cthap 5 AnExpof:tion upon the Book .f J p B. Verf. S the true pie`ureof it. And the King Paid to Zadok, carry back the Arh,of God into the City, ifI (hall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again,andThew me both .it andhie" habitation but if he fay thus, Ihave no delight in thee, behold, here am. I, let ¡,im do to me as feemeth good unto him (2 Sam. 1.25, 26.) As if he had laid, I am uncertain what God will do with.rne : but I am refolved to let the Lord dowith me, what he will, I am wil- ling to be, .what God will have me ; I lay my. caufe and leave my bufncls at his foot ttoál,; ifhe will have me dethroned-and unking'd, I am content myhonour thould lye in the duff. Ube fay, I (hall never come again to Jerufalem,or to fee theArk of his íirength and prefence, I am content-for ever to bebanitht Jerufa- lem, never to fee the Ark, (which tome is the molt beautiful and detrable fight in the world) any more, Here was felf- reGgnati- on, and cauticommitting to the height. And when David had brought his heart to this, his heart was unburthen d, he ( doubt- let's) found the weight and firefs of the whole bufinefs lyingup- on God himfeif, His caufe was with God, and his cares were with God ; And therefore, Though hi throne fha&d, yet bi heart was fixed. N1or, do L.tìnd, that ever his heart was more fixed, then in this tirefs,.while his Throne and Crown were tottering. Hezekiab. did the likewith like fuccefs. In theday of that great and publike, calamity, he went and ípread the letter of Rabfhalteh before._ Gad, he, as it were defired God to read it, to obferve the blafplaemoùs contents, and fee in what condition he was. He that commits hie caufe toGod, breathes a compofedfpirit;evhen the great- cJt fiormes and diftraUions are upon bis body or eftates, upon Church or State, Only,take this caution,be Pure the caufe you commit toGod be a good caufe. The committing of a tinful caufe to God,'is a dif honour to,and a high ['rain ofprefumption againíi God. We may commit a doubtful caufe to God, defiring, that he would tty, and examine, whether it begood or bad. Cut we mull not com- mit a doubtful caufe to God defiring him to proted it, or us in it whether it be good or bad. And if (in this fence) we may not commit a doubtful caufe to God ; What fhai! we thinkof thofe, who (hall dare to commit an openly unjuft, and wickedcaufe to God ? A wicked mans prayer is alwaies tinful, but, how abomi- nable is it when he prayes to be profpered or dirL re6tA inacting his fin or to be ftrengthned in fuffering(impenitently)for his iin.There IS
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