i 3og Chap. 23. An Expoftionupon the Book!! JO B. Verf. 2. fenarr. We may comp'aine, and make great complaints without fin, but the leaf} murmuring is finfull,yea hi the very nature ofit, fo full of fin,chat it ufually & defervedly paffeth under the name -of R. bellion. The children of lfrael were as often charged with rebellion as with murmuring; And thereforewhen they murmur- ed for want ofwater, Males laid unto them, Hear now ye rebels, mull wefetchyouwater out of this Roche? (Numb. 2o. e o.) And againe, Mofes chargeth thisupon themwith his loft breath (as it were) `1)eut. 3 t. 2y. 1know thy rebellion andthy flirre neck.,bebold while Iamyet alivewithyou this day,ye have been rebellious again, t the Lord, and howmuchmore after mydeath ; yea the Lord him- felfe chargeth rebellion upon that unparalleld payreofBrethren, Molesand Aaron themfelves,becaufe they hadnot fofully as they ought at all times and in all things fubmitted unto his divine dif= penfations among that people, (2Zronb. 24.) The Lordfpa(e to Mofes,laying, Aaron Jhall be gatheredunto his people, for be (ball not enter into the Landwhich Ihavegiven unto the children of 1f- rae!, b ceofe ye (the Lordputs them both together in the fin ) rebelled againfl mywerd at the waters ófMeribab. Fourthly, whereas lob faith ; Even to day my complaint is bit- ter. Obferve; The eflff .ttionsandfurrows ofform eminently godly, f icl..e by them, or continue long upon them. It is with affli&ions as with difeafes, there are fore acute dif. cafes, fharpe and feirce for a while, but they lafl not, they are o- ver in a few dayeo;for either the dileafe departs from the man, or the man departs out of the world by the feirceneffeofhis difeale. There are alfo Chronicall difeafes, lotting, lingring difeafes, that hang about a man many dayes, yea moneths and years, and will not begone while he lives, but lye downe in the grave with him Such a difference we findamong thole other effl (bons and trou- bles which are not feated (as difeafes) in the bode, but reach the wholecaveofman. Some are acute and fh< rp, like the fierce firs ofa feavor;but they loft nob or like Summers fudden (forms, which are foone followed with a fucceffion offaireweather. But there are alto chronicall afififtions, Mk and unmoveable trou- bles, which abide by us, which dwell withus day after day, yeare after yeare, and never leaveus while we live, or till we leave the worlds
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