6 i 6 Chap. 7. An Expefitionupon the Book!!! J O B. Verf. 2®è though we ha ve not fuch a mount to goe unto, as Mofes then had to fpcak to God; yet there are wayes for the foul in all fin- cares, to make tdd reties unto God; A firmer may fay,' will go to the Lord,andinake uiy attonement: whatfoever'adviceand dire- ffion we receive fro in men, we mutt engnire whether it be an advice and counfel etlablifhed in Heaven. And the reafon is clean, God is the perfon otfinded inevery fin' and therefore he mutt be contùlted about the remedyof fin, Again, God only can refolve us what will pleafe him; we maypitch upon a wrong courte, and take a wrong way ; we in Read of pacifying God, may provoke him ? in !lead offatisfying, further difpleafe him Therefore we mull fay, when we have finned, Lord what wilt thou have us to doe ? his advice will lead us wChrift for cafe and peace. So farce for the quetlion taken in the affirmative fence, What Pall I doe unto thee ? thew me what I (hall doe, and I will readily fubmit unto it. Secondly, Take the queftion negatively, what JhallI do unta thee ? And fo I find two fences of it. uidtitin?tu Firfi, Some render it thus, what have I done again thee ? and ant quidtetafr,i then the meanng is this, I have done nothing againtl thee, or I Olyrnp. have not hurt thee, by finning : What have I done again¡( thee ? wherein have I injured thee,that thou layell thy hand thus feverely upon me in thefe grievous afBiffions, both upon it;y foule and bo- Pecos no¡Ira dy ? I am hurt, what have I hurt thee ? There is a truth in this : though I take it not for the truth ofthis place. A man may fay mevr u fll' when he hath finned what hurt have I done unto God?and yet all fa8", the hurt and wrong which God receives, he receives by fin. Our tg(j"nr, fins are no hurt unto God, by abating any thing of his happinef s or fullnefs, or intrinlicel effential honour ; take it thus, and our, fins cannot hurt God : All the darts ofour fins, fall infinitely fhort ofGod, they cannot reach him, fiias to annoy him : And we have that language expreflely in the 35. Chapter of this book of job, ver 6. If thou doeft fin, what d®e¡t thou againfi bim l ( that is, thou doeft nothingagaintl God, as a real dammage to him ) or.if by tranfgreffions he multiplied, what doeft thou unto him , Sin as many tins as you can, you cannot impare the happinefs of God, or diminith hisgreatnefs : he is out of the reach of the crea- ture in that fence. Ason the other fide, ifa man be never fo holy and good, or do-never fo manyacs of aighteoufnefs, yet God hath so good or gala by it, we cannot advantage God by out holines and
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