4;18 Chap. ao. An Expofition upon the Book of . J O B. Verj of the bufineß wbereabout I fend thee, and what I have commanded' thee ; and I have appointed my fervants to fuel) a place (j Sam: 21.2. ) He again faulters with his tongue, and (peaks either falfly or doubtfully, when the King of the1?hilitiines asked him, Whether have. ye made.a.rode to day,? 4,telDavid fail, :againff thy South of Judah, &e, (r Sam. 27. ro. ) when as hid invafonwas again( the Gefhurites,andtbe Gezrttes, and the Amalekites(verf.8 -) l-lc that overcame the Bear, the Lion, and Gsliab the Giant, is overcomeby far,and_xhemother ofit, unbelief. Davidsexample fhould be no encouragement, (hall be no excufe to thole who willingly fall often into the famc fin. Agocid man is-not pri- viledg'd, from doing it, but no man is priviledg'd to do it. Such examples muff not teach us to fin, but they.teach us how una- ble we. ( alone) are to keep our helves from fin : they teach us alto, what need, wehave to depend upon, and look up to Chriff, that we may, be kept from fin : if he leave us buta little unto our felvec, the flcfh will difcover much of it Pelf, and we fhall quickly ,thew what our natures are , though we are renewed by grace. We muff traft to the fàepplies, not to the receipts of grace.. Secondly, When 7ób faith [Myfoul is weary, of my.life.] 't_. learn ; Thar Soul and life in man are two diffinl7 things: For howfoever (as was toucht in explication) the fouhisoften; put for the whole man, and fo the fettle of, my [bill H weary, may be but this,I amweary.ofmy life : yet the holy Ghofi would never denominate all man by that, which is not not a part of roan. That's a brutifh opinjon which makes the foul nothing, or nothing elfe but life, and this life no mare in entity then the life of a beati, which vanitheth,when it dieth. That thefe opitiionifis tell us,they believe the body fhall rife againby the:powerof God,, cannot fatisfie for.this fall, which theiropinion gives - the foul s: neither loth the immortality of the foul.at allcontradia .(which was threat-tied for , and is the wages of fin) the death ofthe, whole man. For death conflis not ( if we may fay a privatioiv loth confifi) in the annihilation, but in the feparation of thofe pás is of man, foul-and body, which by life are tuaited..and kept c ie together. '- +rdly, When lob faith, 1Jy foul is weary of my, life, we The
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