434- Chap. 6. Expofition upon the BookofJ O B. Verf..4. arrowes of the Almighty, When God is angry ,no man can abide h ( 2 Cor. 5 t I.) Knowingthe terrour of the. Lord, we perfwade. men : We ( faith the Apoftle ) who have felt by experience,or by faith have underftood the terrour of the Lord : we, knowing it experimentally, or knowing it beleevingly ; we, being fully. perfwaded that the terrour of the Lord is moil terrible, per fwade men;O take heed youput not your felves under the terrour of the Lord, or provoke the terrour of the Lord againtt your felves Thofe'terroursofthe Lord which come from pure wrath are . altogether intolerable : And thofe which come from love , and are let in array by the infinite wifdome and gracious. providence of God, ordering all things for good (to his) in the ifhue,cven thofe are very dreadful, no man, not the holieft of men ( and they are the lirongeft in this war ) are able to fland before them. Pfal. 32. 2. Thine arrows flickfait in me, and thy handpreffeth mefore, there is nofoundnefi in my flefh by reafon of thine anger : that is, I am as aman, who hath not a whole peece ofskin all his body over, all is a wound : or I am as one, whore llefh isrotten by reafon of his wounds. As Ely fpeakes to his formes, i Sam. 2, 25. Ifone man fin againft another, the judge. (hall judge him , but if a man finagainft the Lord, who(hall in- treate for him ? So we may fay on the other fide, if roan contend; with man, Come one may help him, he may have a Second to re- leeve him; but if once a man be contending with God, who will be his Second ? who will undertake for him ? who cau corne in to, the refcue, when God is fighting and contending with us ? We aereftle not againft fiefhand blood, ( faith the Apoitle, Ephef: 6.,12. when he would thew, what a terrible thing it is to wreftle with the Devil ) but aga,inJt principalities and powers, againft ritual tnickednefes in highplaces. Flesh and blood is no match for a fpirit,though a created fpirit,though an unclean fpirit,a De- vil : how then shall flefhand blood be able to wrefile with the creatingSpirit,with him, who is a molt holy Spirit, with God, who is The Principality,The Power,the high,the Strong,the Almigh®- ty Shaddai. In other battels it is man withman, or at wort', man with Devils; but here it is a man with God,weaknefsan.d frailty, contending with omnipotency : and therefore when once God. appears ágainil the foul, the, foul canhold out no longer, His an- ger, who is the Spirit, quickly drinks up ourfpiri,s. Fourthly ob , ûerve,. lstzpard
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