6 Chap .4. An Expofition upon the Book of J O B. Verf. 5. hath it 1 ailed up finking fpirits? how hath it made the fearful un- daunted, a:d the weak hearted couragious ? God by his word in the mouth of a weak man overthrows the ftrong holds of fin, c r ;4,, and by .a word brings every thought ofman, into fùble&ion to Jefus Chrift. By a word he flops the mouthof blafphemy, and evil (peaking; by a word (peaking he makes a man deny hirofelf ; by a word he op,n; the eyes of the blind, and makes the lame to run and leap like a Hart, in the way ofHolinefs. And I could with that the word which I now (peak, might (through the blefsing of God)have filch an effe& upon your Ipi- rìts. O that it might ltrengthen all weak hands and feeble knees, O that it might upholef ail who are ready to falhwe arecalf upon knee feebling, hand- woakning, yea, heart- weakning times : the tight of thole things which our eyes doe fce,and the hearing of thofe things whichour cars do hear, caufemany to fear, and the fpirits-.of Tome to fall Now a word invefted with commifsion from God, to go and comfort, will mailer all our Ibrrowes, and dhfpe1 11 thcfe fears. If the Lord breathe upon a w.ird,that word will breathe Iivcly activity into a very carkafs. Look to thofe many and gracious proinifes, made to thole that mourn, and comfort will flow in. Promifes are the treafures ofcomfort; pro - e3eb. 6 r . miles hold the Churches itoek, they are the patrimony of bel,i- vets; it is their priviledge and Their honour, to be called heirs of .the,iarpmife. While Chrift and the Promife lives, how canFaith dye, or languifh, eying a promife. So much of the brit branch of the minor Propofition in the ,third and fourth Vcrfes. The fecond branch lies in the fifrta Verle. Now it is come upon thee, and thoufaintet, it toucheth thee, and thou art troub'ed, t7 Thou haft i ijllriìúed many, thou halfffrengthened the weak hinds, LaßLsjuil,cor. E1-c.but now it it come upon thee, &c. That is,trouble and afiili- pore vet anio o, lion are dome upon us. p>,e la¡Itudiue 4nd shiu fointet,lTheword figniliesan extraordinary fainting; rccoivirquid when a man is fo wearied and (pent, that he knowes not whathe a.oref' doth,when his reafon feeines tired as much as his ftrength.So that the words, Now it is come upon thee,thou fainteff,may import thus much; thouart in (*Lich a cafe,that thou remelt to be befidcs thy (df, thou knoweft not what thou doeft, thou fpcakcfi , thou known
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