308 Chap. 9t. Ait Expofitionupon the Booki f JO B. Verí222. I will not alter a letter or a tittle : So a confident affertor an- fwers, What I havePaid, Ihave f id ; This it one thing, therefore I rail it. Tru chang:. s not,why. then (houdd I,who have born wit_ rrefs to this truth. T zerh muff be flood to. We have ream to flick to truth,for .rut a will (Lek to us ; we may Cay it, and fay it again,for it will do us good again and again. i) The declarative truth of God is like Chrift, the eff`"ntial truth,TheJame yefterday, and to day, andf,r ever. Though it be very old,yet, it waxetb not old. And becaufe this in the text was a great truth, the very hinge upon which the whole di(pu"te between lob and his friends turn- ed, therefore he is Co reG)lute in it. Whence note further, That great and fundamental truths are to he maintained with much beldnefr andfrengtb of refolution.. As itis a goad bargain: tobuy a little truth with the expence'of much peace : Co it is our wifdorne, as wellas our duty,to maintain it with the expence ofour peace. Theyare the won't fort ofcow- ards who render up the Holds of Truth upon compolition. No teams honourable enough can be given for the giving upof that. I grant that our peace and lives are richer commodities, then hould be hazarded about trifling niceties, and the crochets of Scboolmen: but we ought tocontendearneffy (and we cannot con- tend too refolutely) fr the faith which was once delivered to the Saints (Jude. v. 3.) Obferve thirdly, .r1 man;tbat bathgot onefoundpriociple" about anypoint ,rvillfrom that refute andrepell allobjaliens that can come agáinff him. 3uFerbócaxi- -b- bottoms himfelf upon this; principle, that God de(froyes m ranquatn botl>good and badalike with outward dcffruEtion. This is his great fuperfirmß Axiome,the very foundation upon which he buildeth all he holds mum j.:ndemcn contraditory to his friends ; the Fort-Rya/ in which he defends non, quácqurd himfelfagainft all their oppof tionsand atfaults. One truth well 0,1 due irno- CC77tiæ mann'd and manag'd Scatters and foils a whhole Ar.myofcrrours;. con- tra eos dCjerft'- One text thorowly under(lood gives anfwer to all objc ions,atid omenailatutur untiesall the knots ofa controver(ìe. jGilá4t. But what's this iac thinguponwhich Job 'nukes hisboalt, and cryes v{Gäria ?" 'Tis 'this, He .def}royeth.the prerfecl'asld the wicked. s4 harfjdac,rjne, yet agood one, 'God is to be honoureddefirrying, as well asraving, killing, as well as making alive. ' `- The word which we tranflate to dettroy, fignifies an utter blot- ting,
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