46° Chap. 6. An Expoftion upon the Book ofJ O° B. Verf. t o -. 5nn Peperrit rl: - snentia ulto fuirit. parch in pain: when hewou-ldnot fpareiFor Ikept not clofe the words of the moll. Holy. That is, when the long cxpeFed hour of my death shall come, though God , to take away my life fhould hear the furnace ofmy atiiidion feven times hotter then hitherto, fò that I mull parch in pain, yet I fhould have comfort. Or, take it in Mr Broughtens own glofs, in all thefe pangs if God would make an end ofme, it fhould be my comfort, and l would take cou= rage inmy fick.ytefs to bear it, by myjoy, that[fhould dye, becaufe I' profef'ed the Religion of God. So that the firength of fob, to bear the hand of God, was from the confcience ofhis former integri- ty, in doing the will,and maintaining the truth of Go-d. Let him not fpare. Jab having taken up his hope, that he fhould have comfort, and this refolution that he would harden himfelfin forrow,fpeaks now, as ifhe were at a point, let God do what he pleafeth , let him nor fpare;as ifhe had faid,what courte foever the Lord !hall fee good to take for thecutting ofme off, I am content he fhould go ou with it, Let him notfpare. The word fignifies to indulge or ¡hew mercy to him,whom,by all right a manmight jutlly deifroy. ( Ezra¿. 5.1 t )Becaufe thou hag done thus, and thus faith God,there- fore will I alfo dimin fh thee, neither (hall mine eye fpare, neither will 1 have any pity. yob teems to invite what God threatens o- thers, Let him notfpare, let him not have anypity,ltt him take his fulïfiring in defirojingofine, In this fenfe it is laid, Rom. 8. 32. That Gadfearednot his own Son :, that is, he abated not any thing which justice could intìi&. Chriff therefore laves to the uttermolt, becaufe he fuffered to the uttermofi. He was not (pared one blow, one drop, one figh, one forrow, one fnaine one circumfiance ofall, or anyone of three which juflice could demand, as a fatisfation for mans tin. Yea though (in a fenle) he cryed to his father, that he might be fpa- red,yet he was not. There is a three -foldmercy in God.There is a preventing mer- cy, n.erey that helps between us and trouble. And there is a delivering mercy,mercy that takes us out of the hand of trouble. Caere is a third kind ofinercy, coming in the middle of thefe two, and that is called fparing mercy : and that is two- fold;Firif, sparing for, the time,when God delayes & ilayes long cre;he.f tike Secondly,
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