330 Chap.12..An Expofition upon the Book ofJob. Vierf24., thy servant ;" I ía.63. r7. 0 Lord, why haft thou made us to erre from thy ways. But that which is molt eonfiderable here,is the aft ofGod, He% caufeth them to wander; This intimates an efficiency : Hence 'cis que(tioned,F1ow doth God caufe man towander ? God doth not lead man into false ways ; nor doth he hinder man from going in thole. which are good and right ; thus God caufethno man to wander ; And yet he doth more than barely permit or Cuffr man to wander ; he isaetive in ir, He caujed them to wander. For the V clearing t'í it, I anfwer, Fiaft, God judgethand pronounceth fuchunworthy of light, who have abused it, or that he fhould clear their minds- with the knowledge of his truth, woo have not obeyed his truth, but held it in unrightnefs. Non good in Secondly, Upon the palling of this dreadful fentence, he with. 'fatfitatem ens draweth or with-holdeth his light from them. They muff needs inducat, fed wander who walk in darknefs, and unlefs God continue his gins lumen fu- light we return to our own darknefs. The fitting of the Sun am its fubtrahit r,eveiraremife is enough to make the furface of the earth and the air dark,, verirarem co,g- becaufe they have noinherent light : God needs not infufe dark- nofrant, Sze. .nefs into us, to make us dark, we in our (elves are nothing but Aquirr darknefs. ;Thirdly, Having withdrawn his light, God proceeds toan a& of tradition,deliveringfuch up into the hands of theirown dar15 lulls and black affe&ions, yeahe delivers fuch up into the - 'hand of. Satan-,'who. is the Prince of darknefs, and who hath darknefs enough to caf} into the mind of man, till it be filled with darknefs: If our Gofpelbe hid( laid the Apoftle, 2 0r.4,3, 4.) it is hid to them that are loci, in whom the God of this worldbath blinded-the e)es of their mind, /elf the light of theglorious Gofpel of Cbrili, who i. the Image of God, fhould Thine unto them. Satan is Gods Executioner: the God of this world blinds their eyes who fee not the offered light of God; and the more it is offered and negle&ed, the more he blinds them, and rhe- more they wan- der. They wander who never.faw the light, but they wander croft dangeroufly whoare blinded with the light,or becaufe they have abufed it Fourthly,' The Lord is laid to'eaufe men towander, becaufe he ordereththe;objets' andoccafQns, themeans and manner, the Reps`'and degrees of their Aberrations. Theywho wander Molt
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