380 Chap. 23. AnExpofitionupan theTook, of JO B. Verf.10 it made him to appeare to be but droffe indeed. His heare s Cryed the voyce of god andnot ofenan,When you cry up fuch a Preacher,, inch a Magiifrate, Inch a Sould.t r, fuch anOratour, you put him into the fineing pot,& he that is butdroffe confumes.The worms sate up Herod, bee ufe hegave nct Glory to Clod (Ad. .,Z. 23.)As it was a molt dre:adfull,fo it was a moft righteous judgement,that he fhou!d be eaten up ofworme5, who forgot that he was one, and forgot it fo fa.rre that he was pleafed with their applaufes, who creedhim up for a God. Worldly profperity, power and praife are the right hand, way, by which God tryeth the founts of men. Secondly, God loth ufually tryby afiâion, and that's the left hand way. ,( Tames t. r 2. ) Bleffed is the mein that endureth temptation (meaningpill iti ion)for when he its tryed be 'hall receive the e'rcwne of ltfe,&c.That is, when thofe temptations and aflliäL_ ons have tryed him, and he bath approved himfelfe in the tryall;, then, be receive the crowneof life, &c. (a Pet. x. o.) Thengía note for afr.efen (ifneed be)yee are in heavines through manifold Cos aurum pro temptations, that the tryall ofyourfaith being much more precict-s bat retlam ten then .ofgold that perifheth, though it be tryed with fire, might be taming rentern. found topraife, &c. Aiflic`lion is the tryall of our faith in God, Neura vexes and ofour patience under the bandof God. When nature is vexe preeln feipfun. it 'hews it felf,'andfs doth grace. Affie?Hon`difcoveretn.both what our verities and what our corruptions are. Thirdly, God tryeth manby a kinde ofexamination David . fpeakes of that (Pfeil. 07. 3.) Thou haft proved mine heart, thou. huff vifired me in the night, thou haft triedme and fbalt finde no- thing. ' :i the night the foul is free from bufineffe with the world, and therefore freelt focbufines with God, & then did Godprove: and vifit David, that is; examine and tilt him, by calling to his minds all his wayes and workes in former paffages; And the iffuee of this tryall was, hefound nothing, not that his foul wasempty of . good thi;:gs, or that therewas nothingevill inhim, but God up. onexamination found nothing of that eyill in him, which fame. Men fufpeâed himof Narnely,either any ill will or evill defïgne againft Saul, in reference towhom he called his caufe arighteous caufe, or the right (ver. o.) Hears the right, O Lord, &c. Thus God tryed David; And thus earthly Judges try men, They exa- mine them, and,their.cafe, that's.cal'd a tryall ; in this third. fence. We
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