704 Chap. 7. An Expofttion upon the Book of J. O B, Vere io of comforts lies like a heavy weight upon the (pirit:tho. removinrg . of health from the body is a weight upon the foul fear is a bur- then,care is a burthen, and fo is pain. Therefore God calls us to caft all thofc burthens upon him, Pfal. 5 s 22. Secondly, ob- ferve. t.. Man left to bimfeif, is n4 able to bear bimfelf. Man is much born down by the weight of natural corruption. Hence the Apoftle calls it , Aweight and the fin which dot') fo eafly be. tat NS(Heb.1 a. t.)or dangle about our heels,toburden us , as long garments do a man that runneth. Our ordinary callings and af- faires , left upon our own backs , prefs us to the earth , much more do our extraordinary troubles and affliaions. Acid there- fore he advifeth , Caß thy burthen upon the Lord ( he affures in the next words) and be/hal fsJlain three As implying, that man cannot fuftain or bear his own weight. And though , it fhould feem we have flrength to fparc for others, and arc there- fore commanded to bear one anothers burthens, (Gal. 6.) yet no man of himfelf,no not the holicft 4:104, nor the fpirituallcfl Por- ter on earth, is able tobear his own Pelf, unlefsChrift be his fur porter, who is alto, therefore, Paid to uphold allthings by the word of his power, Hebr. i. 3. Becaufe no creature in a natural , or man in a (piritual capacity can bear hisown weight. Thirdly. Fom the connexion between thefe twophrafes, Thou baff let me as a mark againff thee, fo that I am a bartben to my jelf what is it that makes my life to be fo burthenfomc to me ? It is this, becau(e Iam fa as a markbefore thee, that is , becaufe thou feemcfl to be an enemy to me: And fo the note from the connexion of this. That which prefes and burthens the foul above all , is the appre- benfion that God is agatnjf ua. job in many things looked unto God under thefe temptations, with fad thoughts , as if he were his enemy ; Sohe exprcfsd himfclf in the fikthChapter, The pay- fon of his arrows drinks up my fpirits, be fetteth bimfelf in battei array atainß mi. In thefe temptations and defertions , this was the burthen of his fpirit, that God appeared as an adverfary, Why doß thoufit me as a mark againß thee ? Let the Sabians and the Chaldeans (hoot at me as much as they will, let fire and Winds contend with me, and make me the mark oftheir urmofl fury; I can bear all thefe.706 was light hearted enough,when he thought hecontended only with Creatures, and that Creatures only contended
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