Cap. 6. An Expeftion upon tip Busk of J 0 B. Vert z S. river drier the Surf, but all their fubterfugcs are in viin ;the Sun dries up all, nothing remains ; fo it followes in the next words.: They go to nothingandperk'''. his the word ufed, Gen.: I. 2. The earth mar without form and void; there was a nothingnefr upon that confuted heap before:a fecond creation ftampt a form upon it,that which is ufelefs,isbut beacuitut as good asnothing.Thejewr exprefs an Idol by this word t Sam. 12 2i .which fuites excellently with that of theApoitle, t Cor $. An Idol is notbingin the world. So thefefireams,thefe rivers which famed lochgoodly pleafant Breams, fuch as might have relcived the thinly traveller at all Ceafons, come to them in fummer they a. aregone to nothing,that are like that rude Mafs,when the world layundigetled into parts void and without form. Before I come tot he general Obfervations from the whole fi- militude , obferve, from this defcription of pa(iing (Ironies, That, Things orperfoni cannot hold long, which are net feepply.ed from an inwardprinciple. Job defcribes (Incarnes, having no fpring to maintain them, the rain filled them, the cold front them;and the warmth ofthe Sun emptied them. As it is in things, Co inperfons, no man can hold out either in gracions and fpiritual, or juh and honourablecivil aas,unlefs hehave a principlewithin_,anfwerablc ItferaPbora in- to what he underrakcs(Job 27. t a.`,Will thehypocrite a/wayes call fir"' C tite- upon God?Not alwaycs, why ? becaufe he hath not a fpirit (or 7/8.,11r" fpring) ofprayer ; theerfore hypocritesare well compared to fuck pries vain,. ,brooks as Job here defcribes. A failing brook, is a clear Emblem of totem magna a f.,lli heart, both to Godand max, IFerie;pierarás And that's the rcafon why regeneration is fet forth by the FlbJtttCttr Lift ofa new principle ; of a new heart, or of a new nature. It is f4,%ùí topic a prove, to no purpofe towork a man by Come extrinfecal rnotíve,by hopes or by fears, by threatnings or by promi.(es, by rewards or pu nifhments, to doe,or forbear good or evil: unlefs he "have a new heart, all vanifhes and comes tonothing. A regenerate,perfon bath a new heart, a new fpirit, it a new creature, a new man all which notes, a fallingprinc ple, an eyerJafling frame of huliners in the main, though it may jfometirrtes decline and .need ,iepa.ires, It isfarre better to be a rivole:; a.littlefprìng, than to be a great, torrent; 'it is better tohave a tittle fpring of grace, than a ure:a.t T t t tond ..
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