Chapa5. An Expefitionurn the Book of J O 13. Vetf. 27. 40 law or a charge: Hear t hou it. Obferve in the fifth place , That It it needful to make fpecial application of "general doctrinal truths. Eliphaz had delivered a dotrinal truth, and herehe makes ap- plication ; And though he failed much, in the application ofit to oh, yet there were general truths very appliable,in the things he delivered.Therefore he flays not in generals,nor leaves his doc`rine hovering in the ayre, but brings it home to the heart, and layes it clofe to the confcience ; Hear thou it,and know it thou,fir tbygood. And not, onely national and fpeculative truths to be brought home and applied, but even common experimental truths, fuch were thefe difcuffed,and handled by Eliphaz. Obferve feventhly, Aman may know much, andyet get nogood by it. Know this for thygood. The Devil is a greatScholler,heknows much, but he knows nothing for his benefit, but all for his hurt. Many a man knowes almolt all that is knowable ; but he knowes nothingwhich is (to him) profitable:Notbinggaiaaes by his know- ledge but only hispride, he is puffed up with knowledge, not built up, and that knowledge which puffes up, will at lift puffe down or calf us down. Eightly obferve, Agodlyman, may make aprofitableufe ofany Truth. You fee what truths Eliphaz fpake; many of them ordinary, commonDotrines,andmany ofthem fore threatnings and judge- ments upon wicked men, yet know thou this for thygood. There is no veine of'Doarine in the book of God,but a man may makeufe, yea treafureof it,All truth is fo fymbolical to the regeneratepart, that itcannot butmore fublimate and fpiritualize a fpiritual heart though it felfe be a truth about things earthly and temporal. Obferve laftly, All truths, efpecially truths contained in the promifes, are the portion ofa godlyman. Know thou it for thy good, faith he ; As if he fhould fay, if thou art agodly man,then all the good thingsI have here fpoken of,be- longing togodly men, belong to thee, they are thy portion alto. While a believer reads the booke of God,he fees great riches many precious things in thepromifes ; and whatfoevergood he findes there, there is nothing ofit toogood for him;he may know it all for his own good; thofe fweet deliciouspromifes of the pardon bf fin, of the loveofGod, of the freenefs ofgrace, of the glory to come, thepromifes ofChrifi, and ofall that is Chri(ts, all thefe F If a things
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