Chap, 19. An Espofation upon the Bookof JOB. Verf. 25. mutt not lay our hands upon them t<:o ; God calls us to pit- tie, not to vex thofe that are oppreffed with alietion : Iris not alwayes the will of God, that we fhou;d will-that which he willeth. Ic is the will of God, that many ofhis pretious fer- vanes thould fùffer, but he Both not will any to put them to fùfferings, as it that were a thing fumtable to his mind, or to the duty of man. God is jolt and holy in willing frame things, which ifman wills, he is unjuft andunholy. It is the genius or difpofition of the world, to bleffe thofe whom God outwardly .bleffeth ; and to croffe thofe upon whomGod layeth an outward croffe. Whereas God often af- flids thofe outwardly whom he loves, and heapes many out- wardbieffings upon thole whom he hares; As every man is not good whom God filleth with worldly goods ; fo neither is every one evill vtrhom God preffeth with worldly evills ; therefore the outward dealings and difpenlations of God to man, are no rule for man either in his opinion of, or adings towards, man. Yea, in this manner to profecute that which God willeth, is to oppofe his will ; and to acct differently from that which God willeth is to doe his will ; For the contrarie- tie of mans will, to Gods will, doth not arile from his doing contrary to that which it is the will of God todoe : but from his doing contrary to that which it Is the will of God he fhould doe. So, to the point in hand, Zhough it be the will of God to amid any of his people, yet he bath not willed us to aft! et them but to comfort and relieve them : and therefore though in relieving fuch we doe contrary to what himfelfe wills to doe ; yet we obey what he wills us to doe. Nor dour our will.croffe his, though the objec1t or thing willed be croffe. Man is not difpleafed with what God doth and wills accord- ing to the higher caufe, his fecret will : nor is God difpleafed with what mandoth according to the inferior caufe his revea- ledwill. So then our contrarietyto, and compliance with, the will of God cannot be concluded from the difference or identi- tie of the object willed, hat from the difference or identitie of the adings ofour wills with refpett to the will of God. Hence yob faith, doe not you thi.k that you pleafe God; or comply with his will, while you perfecute me as he doth ; Seeing though it be his will to doe it, yet you cannot produce any warrant,, that 303 Nec in eaparte homo divine adu4r atnr va lurtati, quia vu't deas ut homo fibi eon- gruttm expleat of?cium, non in vcdat qua dei e;?, tantum in- t_refi quid deo, quid homini telle congruat. Ançuíi En- chir. C. to5,
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