Salt) fientM ejipatiemi* fejuefterBe- w,fiin)utiam dtpofuer* justaeum,ul- liire/iiji .damnum, rtfli* tutor;j(«dolo- ttm, medics* i <vnortcm, re- Suftiiator- eft. Tcttul. I. d o, fatitnti <y, An Exposition upon the Baok^ <f J O B>- VerCg'j. Ms heart, but to keep down or to cure the fwellings of his heart* Thirdly, It it a fearful thing to fall into tbehands of God, He it not a man as we are ( we are notable to’match him), and’ tbttie it (among xttew} no Dayes-man betwixt us- Eavidmadcit bis election (a.Satp.~24>J ‘iofall into the bands ofGod, and not into the hands of math And it is belffor us to fall into the hands of Sod ( as 'Davidput himlelf into his hands) with rdpeft to his^ great mercies. But woe unto u s ,ifw e fall iuto his hands, as contenders with his-great -power. Shall we thus provoke the Lord ? Are we ftronger theu he,?* It is;Our»duty,whenwe do,and- our priviledge that we may,caft our felves into the hands of God,, when the hand of mahoppreffesus , for (as one of the Ancients lpcak^fweetly andfeelinglyj If thou doejl depofit thy injuries with birto-i'bt it ahIt to revenge-theej ifthy.lojfes, betaM e te repairrtlfells if thy fiekjteffe it able to heal thee ■, and i f thy.death,ht can raife thte up and ejtati thee in life again.Thus( I-fay ,it is belt to fall into the hands of God, in expe&ation of mercy, through the Media.' tour, but it is a fearful thing to falh into the hands of the.living. Godi, tipOn contempt of mercy obtained by. the Mediatour : So the Apoftle argues ( Heb. x.o. 26.J I f men finwilfullyafter they, ’hawrl'ceived the knowledge oj the truthj there remainetb nomorefa- ■crifice for fin , but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and. fieryindignathni8c<s, Thence concluding, (verfi 34 .)It is a fearful tbingto fall into the bands of the living God. They who Height the bloud Of Chrift, and ncgleft the great falvation tendered to fmners by him, Can have no more fecrifiCe. for fin. Wicked men- orucifie to tbemfelve-s the Son of God afrejh, andput him to open jhamt, Heb. 6 ,6 . But God will not eruehfie his Son, or put-him* to open fhame again for them. God will not make another Gor •fpel for them (as hemuft, if they be fayed) who contemn this. •No, there remains no more facrifiee for fin, thde men who once i f with all mankind ) fell into the hands of God by tranlgrelfing his'Law, are riow (under another notion) falleninto-his hands, even by the contempt of his Gofpcl s and now Godfaith, Twill' deal With thcrrvalonc/or they have refufedithe Dayess-man whom Tferit, and who- Was ready to lay his hand upon ns both. It had been uneonceiv&bly. fad withusall, if, as in the cafe of JMr temporal loll eft'ate, there wasno Dayes-manbetween God and. him ©n earth, fo in the cafe of ourlpmtual loft efiatc, them.had been 8 0
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