Chap.tá. An Bxpofitionupon the Book of Job.Verf.24. 3 3 a. Miftakes incivil things ( which is the buhnefs of this Text) are from God too. God took away the heart of Rehoboam, and then rejelting good éounfel, He wandered in a Wildernefs where therewas no way. Wherefore the King hearkenednot unto the people, for the caufe was front the Lord, that he might perform his laying, r King.ra. i 5. TheLord left Reheboam to the prideof his hearr,, and to theblindnts of his mind, and then he ran intothat ex- creammittake, which loft him ten parts of hi Kingdom. Secondly, From the Connexion. He taketh away the heart of the chief of the earth,and what followeth ? They wander in a Wil dernefs where there is no way. Oi'ferve, When the heart isdifordered, the whole man is dtf- ordered. Put the heart cut of fraim, and all is out of frame : The heart is theprime mover inman, whether it be to do good or to doe- vil. Therefore the work of Converfion beginneth at the heart, or is thegiving of anewheart : God doth not give a new hand, or a new eye,anew tongueor a new foot,but a new heart,becaufe he knows that ifonce the heart be new, the whole man will be renewed. If the heart be tetled, all is fetled : His heart is fixed (faith the Pfalmi{t) and he(hall not be afraid. The heartruns be- fore the foot ftirs, either into theways of fin, or from the ap- proachof danger. The heart is Pilot and gaide (under God ) of mans lifeand way. Where God takes away the heart he ne- ver ftaies himfeff, and he that hath not a heart within him, nor Godnear him, may doany thing rather than what he ought, or go any whether, rather than where he fhould. He that is deferted of God entangles hisnfelt at every iep,he is in a WildernefZ,and the furtherhe goes, the morehe h out of leis way. As it was with Pharaoh, God took away his heart, he would not hear the counfel that was given him to let the people go, and then he wilder'd' himfelf from day to.day, rill he was utterly ruined,every fiep he took was out of the way of his own fafety and honour. ThirdlyObferve, They that will not takeGods ways, Jhall be carriedwhere there is no way. God fkeweth man his way, Go here (faithGod) it is a way of Elolinefs; go there,it is the way of jteltise, come hither, this Liu3 is
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