I not reafon tobetroubled ?0 r beit that mycomplaint istoGod- have I not reafon tobe troubled ?for dothhenot denymeprefent deliverance, dothhenot holdmejet indarkpeflel Is hehotpleafed tohidebimfelf& all tbojecomfortsfromme, which I am waiting for?So, that whethermy complaint betoman,or to Cjod,whyft>onldJ not mj jpirlt betroubled, consideringtheprefent pefiure ofmj condition ; feeing thingsgothus withme.As for me, ismy complaint toman ? Obferve; firft, great andpainfullfnjferingsput thebefi tocomplaints. \fob denied not that he complained, he only denied that man was the foieobjeft of hiscomplaint. What manin paine, efpecially in fnch paine as Job’t was, can forbeare complain- ing? Aneminent Martyre in theMarian perfecut<on, (aid thus to the Smith that was faftning the chainewith whichhewas to be bound to the flake3 'Befare youmake itfafl, For theflt/h willhave its courfe-,Though the inordinatecourfesoffinfal flefh are ftopt andmortified, yet fenfitive flefh, beingpinched and painedwill have itscourfe, even in thofe that that are fpirituall. The titleof the 102Bfalme, \i,Aprayer oftheafUBedwhen he is overwhelmed, andpowrethout hiscomplaint.And again ( Pfal. 55. 2 )7 mourn in my complaint, andmakeanoyfe. Such confu- flon was upon his fpirit,that he rather made a noife then fpake; to utter a voyce isan aft ofreafon ; inanimate and irrationall creaturesmake aJound, or a noyfe. D a v id was fodifturbed in his complaint,that hcrather made a noyfe, like the winds, or like a beaft, then formed an articulate voyce like aman,/ make anoyfeinmycomplaint. So whenhemade hisprayer inthe cave, (<pf 142,2.) I powredout mycomplaint before him.Davidwas (hut up in the cave; and though it were awilling imprifon- ment (for he went thither to fecure himfelfe, lie was glad to goe to the cave for (helter) yet he complained and begged of God that he might not haveoccafion ofgoing to the cavefor (helter. We findA/apbin fuchcomplaints (Pfal. 77.)andHe- man (Pfal. 88.) andHezekiah {Ifa. 38.14.) Hecomplained & chattered likeacraneor afwallow. Indeed that queflion put by theProphet hath a negative fencein it{Lam. 3'. 3^Whereforedotha living man complaine,amanfor thepunifhment ofhis fins?As if hehadfaid, th a t reafon-kathjnan tovex himf-Ifor murmur Chap. 21. An Expofition upon the Book^of J o b. Verf. 4. 631
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