322 Chap? 5. AnExpnfition upon the Book, of J OB. Verf.z glory over it, then lay it down. TheSaints defire tolive with Chrift,but in it felf,thcy defirenot to die:They had rather their mortality fhould be(wallowed up of eternal life, then their tem- poral life thould be swallowed up of mortality. They that have grace, like not the difanions ofnature. Now, as it is in the cafe of death ( which is to the Saints the lait and greateft afiftion 1fo, likewife in the cafe of all aflii(tions,whichare asrenewed &leffer dearhs,Though they embrace and kifs them(both in a holy fub- million to thewill of (od,and in an allured cxpe&ation of their . own good(yet theyhave nothingpleating in them;rnuch,which creates (o much loathing, that the belt doe but need counfell and encouragement to take and digeft them. And then if there be tome averfncfs even in the belt from . there potionsof affiiaion,temper'dwith the mercyand goodnefs ofGod;no wonder ifthere bean abhorrence in wicked men,frotn, thofe deadly potions,míxtonly withhis wrath and juftice. The P(almift prefer-its the Lord to us,witha cup in his hand(Pfal.75. S. (In the band of the Lord there is a cup, the wine thereof is red ( which notes wrath ) and it is full of mixture : ( This mix- ture is of jodgements, plagues, and puniflaments, this is the por- tion of their cup, pfal i t.utt.), But what will the Lord doe with this mixed cup?who (ball lip at the top of the cup,he tels us nor,, but he is exprefs, whole the bottom is, lie powretb out of the fame (tome drops are fpilt here and there ) but the dregs there- of, all the ungodly of the earth pall wring them out and drink than Alas they loath ir,their flomacks turn at it Theyhave not been brought up to drink dreggs,theyhave had their wine well rebn'd, . and fparkeling with Gpirits in Chriflal glaffes and how can theyget this down? They who havedrunk fo willingly and free- lyofthecupoffin,fhall be forc'd whether they will or no todrink the cupof j:tdgement. And iris not a lip or two (hall ferve their turns, they mutt drink all, dregges and all,they bball drink it to the bottom, and yet they (hall never ceme to the bottom ; they have loved long draughts, andnow they (hall have one long e- nough,there is eternityto thebottomolfa cupof affliaion,which ( in the effeI-) is a cup offalvation, be fometime,or fora time, nau(eous to the godly, how deadly lick will the ungodly be , who mutt for ever drink acup of wrath and death ? Secondly, The word which we tranflare defpi(e, notes the re- jeaing of a thing as unprofitable,or unufeful:That which a man defpifeth,
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