Chap. r3. An Expo(tioís upon the Rook ofJos. Verf. i 5. 449 not counterfeit and bate, when a man is ready tooffer it to the touch-moue : Try me, prove me, do what you will with Ale, bringme to the balancear to the touch - (tone; I will main in my wales, I doubt not but I ihall be found weight and right, faith the upright foul (Ph. 3. 21.) He that doth truth cometh to the light, that hisdeeds may bi made manifelt. He that doth the truth is not afraidof the light ; that will but makehisdeeds ma- nifeft that theyarewrought in God, as Chritl (peaks in that place. How are the deeds ofa man wrought in God ? Firft, thus, The deeds of the Saints arewrought in God, that is, in the ftrengrh and power of God. Secondly, They are wrought inGod, that is, at the command, and by the authorityof God. They that work in the power of God, and by the ruleof God, their deeds are wrought in God. Now, he that doth the truth comes tothe light, he loves the light, that his deeds may be made maaifet , that they arewrought in God, both according to themind of God, and by the power of God. Our deeds have no value in them, butas they are done in God : nor can we maintain any of our waies before God, but when we walk in God. We may make a flourifh before men, of wuac is wrought in man : But what we maintain before God mutt he of God. See howyou can put your waies before the light of Gods countenance, and debate them in his pretence. It is anealte matter to carry it out withcrew tires : Confider what you can/do with God. I (faith job) will maintainmineownwaies before him. Thirdly, 1will maintain mywales, may lìynifie his refotution tarn ad or; to continue in the waies of holinefs and oDedietice for the time te.aftavita pe. to come : Thoughheflay me, yet Iwillmaintain my wales, that is, nitentiam qu:arn I will not be brought out of love withholinefs, though the Lord aä feque:a+.is nu: fhould lay me under the greate(t difcouragemeots : here is ano- rita'em f;7" ther argument of fincerity. A found heart faith, Wiaatevilfo- 37 3 ever I find in the waies of God, I will never think ill of the q,gue)e vas wales of God : No, I will yet walk in them, I will now run in in confacttu them ; how hardly foever I amufed in thofe waies, I will never eiue, ejt c/a; a e. out of them, though I meet withLyons in them, though I meet Perim ut intro. with blowsand troubles in them, yea, though God meet tae, as a ¿oraraa ilk. Lyon in them, though I receive blows and troubles from thehand of God himfelf in thofe waies I walk, though he feem to (land there with a drawn fworct to flay me, yet Iwill maintainmy way. This is a truth, and true of Job, yet I conceive theword in the Mm 111 Hebrew
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