Chap. 19. An E.xpofition upon the Zlook f) GB:. Verf. zz. 3.0r. and may doe what he pleafech, without giving an account ofany Nu n idern vo- ofhis matrers but it is too great a b,ildneffe in creatures to bis doer 4::ód imitate God in this ; Will pee dare to perfecute me; «'hen.no áz° Majelaern reafon appeares but yobr own fiirmifes and fufpitions ? yeknow & ; mp:eriutn nothing by me, ye can produce no evidence againti me, onely arq; judiciari_ conjectures. While you deale thus with me doe not you take am poteflate n upon you to perfecute me as God in a prerogative way, and adepts eftis? beciufe you will. Forbeare any longer to let your (elves in. the place of God. It doch not become you; nor is lawful! for Taruè ru imam ija arrngantlam youwho are my fellow- c. eatures, to deale with me as God doch. objicit d. narn Are ye do thed with his ma jel}ieandpower ? Are ye fupreame quid tiocdü and abfolute in your proceedings as he ? Are ye Gods ? You eftii take too much upon you, yee Eons ofmen.. Either then (hewme better realen for what ye doe; or doe fo no more. why doe ye p:rfecute me as Cod ? Secondly, God had counted him as an enemy (as he com- plained in the 16 (hap. ver. 9. Chap. 19. it . ) Now (faith he) trillyou perfecute nor as cod ? What if God (hew himfelfan ene- my to me, will you my friends, between whom and me there bath been a long profeflion of love, will you fhew your (elves enemies alfo ? While theLord appeares in wrath, you fhould.ap- peare in love to.your afili&ted friend.. Thirdly, God afflicted him, without intermiffion ; God fmote him inceffantly with breach upon breach, blow upon blew, giving him no refs, no breathing, as was fhewed- before. willye aflilP me as God, and give me no breathing, no refs ?. Will ye followme with rebuke upon rebuke, and threat upon threat ? Fourthly, We may referre it to the degree of. afflic4ion ;. God bath greatly atilided me, he hath laid his hand heavily upon me; will. you. proportion your hand to his; Shall your hand be heavy, becaufe the hand.ofGod is ? Will you lay load .Quez adeoft,t,l on me, as God bath done ?. In. profecutiou of which fenfe, dei punt, ea Rune expound the words.by an ufuall l-Iebraifine. To doe a maxima rife thing as God, is to doe it with firengxh ; the phrafe importeth the dirr+nrrGT,. molt powerfull.andhighefi a Ling offtrength ; Willye perfecute me as God ? or, as if ye were fo many.Gods ? Thus he might charge them with an nnwarrantable imitation, of God in-the. manner of their oppofition. But_
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