0z, Chap. 20. AnExpofation upon the Book of J OB. Verf. z6, any thing more ferviceable tous then fire ; this intfntionall fire, ame, noman is a fire blowne. But fecondly, there are cafuall Ores, acciden- tall fires ; A fire takes in a honk, knowes how. Thofe JudgementsofGod, whole beginningsand inftruments we fee not, are to us, as a cafuall fire, a fire not blowne. I conceive, this is it which Zophar chiefely aymes at,A fire not blowne/hall confume him. He is confurned,but hecan give no account who or what kindled the fire. Hence obferve ; godcan rayfe up troubles, confirming troubles, immediatey, er without any apperrances from the creature. He caufeth fame fires without mans blowing ; God needs not the helpe of the creature, either to doe good or to doe evill;As he himfelfeformes the light,fohe createsdarknefi,(Ifa.45. 7.) What the .Apo(lle fayth of our glorious awe hereafter (z Cor.5.1.)Ifthe earthly houfe ofthis Tabernacle were diffolved, we have a building ofgod, anhoufe not made withhands ; that is a houle not made by the handofman, but built by the immedi- atepower ofGod ; the fame maybe Paid ofthe calamitous fate ofmany here, Their houfe is unmadeor puld downe, not with hands; They are ruin'd, but theycannot fay which way, they areoonfumed, but they cannot fay by whom the fire was kind- led. There are many fires in the world, that is, troubles and evills which we may eafily fee how they come, and by whom theywere blowne up ; there are bellows which blow up fires, the fires ofdifcord and contention among brethren. Thefe fires confume, Cities, and Countries and Nations. The Prophet (dimes Chap. 7. 4, 5.) fpeaks ofGod contendingby fire,which as we may interpret ofwarre and drougth, fo of difcords and jealoufies in thebowelsof that nation. Thefe fires are toomuch blowne in many places, to the confumption of many, and the hazzard of all. And 'tis no hard matter to findeout thebel- lows : We maycommonlycall men of frife, Incendiaries ; they lblow up and foment unnaturall fires, by bitter fpeeches and pro- voking language. 'Tis the Rudy of forne men to kindle fires between partie, and partie, between State and State, yea to make themof the fame (late and partie fufpitious of one ano- ther, till all be in a flame. How bath this fire been blowne in their
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