Chap. r I. An expofition upon the Zook, of J O B. Vert ze. 157 ' t bat would know. , refuge failed me : The help of man often fails good men, though the-help of God never fails them. The help of man often fails wicked men and the help of God fails them ever. They may look in a fireight nH only on the right hand and on the left , that is , on all creatures; but upward aifo, on God himfelf and yet fndno refuge. God will not deliver wicked men , and others íhall not. Nothing can fave him whom God will deflroy, or give up to dePruction. 2. Thevanity oftheir own hopes, they have great hopes that they (hall get off and out -run their dangers , but they cannot. Their forrows (hall be too fwift of foot for them , yea their for- rows fhall purfue them as upon eagles wings. They (hall not. efcape. Hence Obferve, There is no efcaping the hand ofGod. . His is a long hand every thing is within the reach ofit. His foot is a fwift foot, therefore the fight fhall perifh from roefwift and the ftrong (hall notflrengthen his force, neither (hall the mighty," deliver himfelf , neither ,(hall hefined that handleth the Bowe, and he that isfwift offset fd3all not deliver himfelf,Amos 2.14. When a prevailing enemy comes, there's no fighting with him , but there may be an efcape from him. A good pair of heels may doe iss fee-- vice where hands cannot. But when a people can neither fight nor flee, neither charge nor retreat, their cafe is defperate. There. is no getting from that vengeance which God fendeth to attach anctapprehend his enemies. As all outward helps (hall failthofe whom Cod will not help, fo God rejects the confidences which, wicked men have in him. On that fuppofition Rabfbzkeh thought to dafh the confidence of Hez.ekiah, and to pertwade him that he fhould not efcape. Is not this he in whom thou truflef$(faith he) whofe high places and whole altars thou haft taken away ? Thou trufteft in God , but will God deliver thee when thou haft. thus difhonoured him ? They that deflroy the influenced worfhip of Clod ,, have little reafon to hope that god fhould affïfl them., while they offer to trufl him , which is his natural werfhip,. Seeing then God rejects the confidences which wicked men have in him, and blafteth every outward thing which they snake their confidence how is it pof(iblè for them to efcape ? When our rock will not fave us, how (hall we be faved by a flaff of reed ?
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