452 Chap. 23. An Expo/ilionupon the Book c JOB. Verf.ry Senfu flagello- yu'nprarenti sm, motu fu- rorum. Jun. 7herefore am I troubledat hie prefence. The letter is, at his face, or becaufe ofhim that is, for feareof him. Therefore am I troubled. 766 was troubled upon a twofold account; Firft, With the paine and (mart ofhis then prefent fufferíngs Secondly, With feare offurther or future fufferings.Iam trots. bled at hid prefence. The prefenceofGod is molt defireabie ; what is it that Saints with and rejoyce in comparatively to the prefenceof God ? My fule tbirfieth for God ; whenthat! I come andappeare before god? faith D.evid,(Pfal. 42.2.)How greedy was heof the prefence of God ? how did he (as it were) tell the clocks, and count every hour a day, every dayyeare, till he was reflored to it. And in another place, how earneftlydothhe deprecate his banifhment from the face ofGod, as the foreft punifhment, (Pfal. 5r. r i. ) Cali me net away from thy prefence. Yet here pob confefeth,laas troubled at his prefence. Hence note. God can eafsl"y vary the appearances ofhimfelfe to est. He can difcover himfelffo to uc,as that his prefence Thal: be bet= ter to us then life, better to us then ten thoufand ofthefe lower worlds, or as the heaven of this lower world, yea as the onely fe- licity ofthatheaven which is above. What is heaven, but this pre- fence ofGod. Thou wiltJhew me the path oflife ; In thyprefence isfeelnefs of Yoy (Pfal. 16. t r.) Thus God can make himfelfe knowne with a delightful! prefence, yet he can make himfelfe known, and often doth, even to his owne, with a dreadfull and anamazing prefence. God in whom there is no variablenefTe,not fhadowof turning, can vary the demonftrations ofhimfelf tous, as much as light varieth from darkneffe, or life from the fhadow ofdeath. God hatha light fide, and a darke fide as to rnanifefta- tion, though in himfelf he is light, and in him there is nodarknefs at all. Sometimes his prefence is fweetnefs and joy, evenjoy un- fpeakable and glorious ; at other times, his prefence is bitternef7e and foam, even forrow unfpeakably grievous. There isnothirg fo
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