É trap. 2 3 . An .ë.xporri-,in upsn the Book f J OB. Verf I z,. 405 fling of the price by turning back. (`Pro. 4. 18.) The path cfthe guff it like thefhinir z (or morning) light, whichfhineth more and more ant, the perfeil day. The path of the unju{ì (ifit have any light in ír)io hut like the evening lbght,which (Fines leffe & lefíTe¢. which declines and goet) downward, till the perfea night, and till krirnfcilc be wrapt upin.everlaffing darkneffe. The Sun in the firmamc.,t went back by mirecle for a figne to Hezei iah that he (hould recover the health of his body. But ifwe fee any go back whohave heretofore (hined like the Sun in a Gofpe) profeffton, we have c::ufe to looke upon it as a fad fymptome, that their foules are in a d tngerous, if not itaan irrecoverable condition. I have not gone back(faith lob) from the commandement.ef his lips. Againe, from all thefeexpreíions, in that ¡ob (peaking of the fame thing,calls it,the way of God,the commandement of his lips ,ariti (in the latter part of this verfe) the wordofhis moutb,to which he had cleaved and wholly devoted himfelfe for the guiding of his whole man in the ducy which he owed and had bacn careful! to payboth to God and man.. Obferve. The word ofGodis the 'n ° ly ruleoflire; And in this poynt the word or commandement of God is to be taken in a double oppofìtion ; firft, to our own devises and ru':eo ;. fecondly,to the.devifes and rules of other men;man muff neat pre. fcribe to himfelfe, nor may we receive the prercripiions ofmen; toorder our praftife by. God is the onlyLawgiver, and we mutt receive the Law from his mouth. He that will pleare God,. muff Phut all his own imaginations out of doores,, and h the no- thing to doe with them ; 'Tis not what man bath a m nde to do, but what the minde of God is he íhould doe, that pleafech or is either a worfhip or a fervice acceptable to him. We never difhonour Godmore then when we take upon us to ferve himour . ownway, and leavinghis rule make a rule for cur felves. Such a levying of God is rebellionagainft him ; as was cold Saul by the. Prophet (a Sam. t 5.zz.) Hath the Lord asgreat delight in burnt rfferings, andfzcrifice:, as in obeying the voice ofthe Lórd. Saul thought he had done very wel when he Paved the fheep and oxen for facrifice ; But he was told, that to ei bey is better then facrifice, And t& hearken thenthefat of Rama. God. had colinmanded buret offerings,..
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