Chap.19. An Expofttion upon the Hooke of J OB. Verf. 26. We finde Faith putting many hard cales to it felfe ; David did fo (°!al, 23.4.) Though I wake in the valleyof the fhudow of death, I will feare no ill. Againe (`Pfal. 46. 2.) Therefore we will notfcare,though' theearth remove,ana the mountaines be carrid into the middefl of the Sea. You fee what thoughts faith propofeth to it felfe and yet gets over, and above them. Faith is not onely a purifying, but a prevailing and a conquering grace. Faith is rrur victoryover the world and all worldly objections. As the . grace of God towards man triumphs over all the urworthi- neffe ofman, andwill doe mangood, though many flops lie in . the way. ( Pfd. io6. 8. ) They undtrflandnot his works,they re- membred not the multitude ofhis mercies, they rebelled at the Sea,. evenat the redSea. Every oneof thefewere as a flop in the way of mercy to doe that people good yet mercy got over them. all, NeverthelFffe he raved them. Now (I fay ), as the grace of God triumphs over the unworthineffe of man fo faith tri- umphs over all . the improbabilities and impoíiibilities that f.eeme to lie in the wayof God, to hinder him from doing any . thing for us, when once we have his word or promife. And as . to that fpeciall word, or promife of God for the refurree`tion . of the body, faith feemes to fpeake,. yea toglory and boaft thus ;. He thatgave mea being when Ihad none,can eafily reduce me to the being I am in, when I/eeme not to be what Iwas before , or nofucha thingas now lam ;. though wilde beaflt of the carth,and birdsof the ayre ; though Canibals,99r men- eating men devoure this boaie;though fire confume it ; though the aloes befcattered in the ayre, (as the Church -Story fpeakes in the reigneof perfecuting Dioclefsan ) or throwne into the river,aa loftfor ever,and never to begathered up. againe in the opinion ofman;though all thefe difficulties andencum- brancesgrow upon myfaith,yet I believe IJhallbe repaired,andfee, God in my fltfb. Which is the next point of74's faith. Yet in my.flefh (hall Ifee Cod. The Hebrew is, frommy flefh, it is u.fuall in that language to Non dicit, per put the Prepofition De for In. Mr Broughton keeps to the letter, earner meam and faith, Yetfrommy flefh/all Ifee god. His meaning is, I be- fed in carne ing ra:ifed and cloathed with flefh, fhall fee God, or frommy ceae d in®. flefh. Wh "en Iam in thef c/h I"hallfeeGod. There are two things oum videbo. further in thole words, In myflefb,. deem. Firti,, 365
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