57o Chap. 2o. AnE.rpofiiion upon the Book of J O B. Vert. . 24 Thejîudie ofa wicked cyan, when trouble is upon him,is not how improve, or m.s4 gooI are ofit, how toget his heart hum- bled `under it, andhis / abettered by it; hut only how to get ¡f it , , or how to get awayfrom it. I-?e'..e is not a word in the Text of htímb'.i ^g h'mfe,Fe when he fe-sehn iron w ca?on, here is no mention of.fu;ng roGod, and feeking to make his--pence with him, hzie is no a know ledgement ofhis fin, that he deferved to -be woundedand de- froyed ; but ail the ma trer is how to efcape, how to get out of - the retchof .clanger He never 1. bouts to make his peace with God, bat or.dy it ives how toavoyd the warreof God: There is another frame of fpirit in beleevers; they doe not make it their worke tó run from the judgements ofGod, bat to make a right ufe and improvement ofthem ; when the iword comes, or the arrow comes, they enquire how to give God the glory of leis fmitings and woundings, they flee from thofe weapons onely by fleeing to God. Whereaswicked men flee thefewea- pons; by fleeing fromGod ; godly men flee them, by flying to God, that is, they make God theirrefuge their hiding-place ; f theyhide themfelves from the iron weapon, they hide them. (elves in God ; if they run from the iron weapon, they run to God. God is a godlymans Tower, andFort, end hiding glace, he flies unto, and into God that he may be fafe. .Fourthly, As this fhifting and fleeing, when the Iron wea- pon comes, notes the impenitency ofwicked men, who never think of turning to but onelyof running fromGod; fo it notes a,fo the cowardife and bafencffe of their fpirits. Hence observe ; e.-4wickedman loath nocourage in an evill day: When troubles rife, his fpirit falls ; though he may make a bottle, yet he bath no heart, no true fortitude; heeyther flees or is m,i dilating a flight. And cis no wonder that a wicked' man fho,.ld flee being purfued ; when Sollomoss tells us that be fi"cr1i, when none pu:;ues him. It is no marvaile if he flee at the fight ofthe iron weapon when he flees meerly from a fan. cied weapon. How can hi b'it flee from the ftroake of the fword a. when another Text Tells us, that he flees at the very (baking
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