3zso Chap,: 6. AnExpofitionupon the Bookof J OB. Verc2a his peaceat his cry ; he expe6 ed to have his tears anfwered He did not fay, Hold not thy peace it my words, or at my prayer, but as importing that his very tears had a voyce and language in them, hedefired that they might be anfwered. Daviddid not weep for fear of men, but in faith to God. And ladid lob : Mine eyepoureth out tears unto God: God was the object of his tears , as much as of his prayers. God is above, and yet our tears fall into his bofome : thefe waters afcend ; this rain doth not fall but rite ; thefe fhowres donot come from the Clouds, but they peirce the Clouds. As the heat of the Sun draws the water upward, fo doth the heat of Gods love. Some of the Ancients ufe firange Hyperbolies about the power and motion of tears, I will not flay upon them, we may fay too much of them ; but thus much we may fafely fay, that from a heart rightly affected, and touched with the fenfe, either of fin, or fuffering, they have much weight in them, and are pret ing upon God : Mine eyepoureth out tears unto God. From the connexion of this latter part of the Verlewith the former : Obferve. When rye are fcorned by men, it is good for us to mourn ter God. My Friends (corn me , now, I weep and pray : It is befit for us to apply our felves to God when we live in the embra- ces of men, when all men (peak well of us and applaud us, what is all this, if we have not the good word and the good will ofGod ? unlefs we have an applaufe in heaven, it will do us no good to have the true applaufe,much lets the flatteries ofmen on earth. Suppofe thcy fpeak right, and give us but our due, yet we mutt not reti in that, but go to God. The good word ofGod is better to us infinitely, then the belt word ofthe bcfl men to him let us have recourfe when we have the greateft favour, and faired Qaarter in the World ; but when the world fcorns, and reeds us, then is a fpecial feafon for us tohaften into the prefence of God ; we fhould live neareftand clofeft to God, when men cafe us off, or throw us out of their focieties and affet` ions. There is a twofold recourfe to God, whereofthe'ftr(t is from choice, the fecond from neceffity. It is belt to make our recourfe
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