Chap, 6. An Expefttien upsrr the Back of J OB. Verf.2q. 529 to befeared that mast ie much divorcedfrom right reafon, who it fo married to his own, that be refolves, nothing but death ahall p r t him and his opinion. What if this man have efpoufed,a fa`tcy of his own,not any truth ofGod ? To be fo fixed, that he may be fixed in evil,it is as dangerous,as,to be fou_nfixed,that he may be unfixed in good .I,t was a high breathing of holincfs;when Da- vid laid, Pfal. 57. 7, My heart it fixed 0 God, my heart is fixed. While weare upon knownduty,or have known truth onour lid e our hearts cannotbe too much fixed and let upon them.To be of 4n ùnfixed,moveable, wavering (pint in goodi,efs,is within one degreeoffalling into evil , but to fay, I am fixed,1 amfixed, I am refolved, refolved, when yet things are doubtful and under diffi- cult dispute, is atually to be in an errour; though po[libly, the thing we fix on, be a truth. The Apofile cautions his Epbefi- ans, and us in them, Chap. 4.14. That they andwe be not hence- forth children toffed too andfro, andcarried about with every win d ofdocrine, and yet they are under a rebuke, who will not be mo- vedby any wind of dot`rine ; that is, let never fo powerful and forcible a wind of truth, breath and blow upon them, they will not becarried or moyed in judgement by it. Obferve third- ly, _ Silence becometh learners. Yet not all filence. There is a (pea- king helpful tolearning.To move doubts is the way tobe re lolv'd, and to ask the queflion, the readieft means for infiruetion. But he that will have all the talk, (hall have but little profit. The ear is the Organ of difcipline:Hearing is thefence oflearning,and the feafonable flopping of our own mouths, a ready means to open our underflandings. To be fwift to hear, and flow to fpeak ( lames. r, r9,) is the fpeediefl way to obtain wifdom. Fourthly obferve, Ile that is ¡hewed his errour, Jhould (peak, no more, but fit down convinced. Teach me ( faith Job j and I Will bold my tongue;That is,! will reply no more upon you, C willnever (land up in maintaining an errour;t will be no patternofevil,though my felfam in the fault.Errour (hall not beexcufed,or a miflake apolo- gized for, by me. Some }vies axe able to make a fair cover for, and put agilofs_upon tÍ tOfl,deformed & groifefl errours. There was never any opinion in the world, but force have feconded it, , and undertaken its protet` ieln.' When confcience bath never a word tofay,ivit will t'e very, talkative, and when they have en- yy ded
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