C 14' Chap, 24: An ex, r.ficion upon rite akcf J O B. Veri 5; t..ey are compared towild Affes it7 the Fexc,I will give you fettle p ?ratels between them and tie wilde Aff . Fe It, in their Igwlefnefsand unrubjeelion ro command : car- .Cherezt cfi i.- nal nn f: n are lawieffe. The A pull; calls them fo (i Ton. a . 9.). b5last; eft oar Knot ing this that the law it not madefora righte.,us mane but for ger, the larde:, and di./obedient ; noc that they have no law, b'dt they he as if they had none, they who love to disobey the law are lawleffe; and embrace itbertinifine in flead of liberty. Thus the wicked man is as the wild affe,forhis licentioufneís and law lefnef;.. for fo the wild affe is defcnbed in the 39th Chapter of this hook, verte. the Sth ; who bath lent cut the wildaft free? or loafed the band, ofthe wildaft? what's the freedome of the mild affe? not like that of man who have the priviledge offreedom in an order, but to be free without cyder. The wicked would be where they will, and doe what they lift, this is the freedome of the wild afe. Now as God himfeife there puss the Qieftion, yyhohath lent cue- the wild all e free? who bath mum. nakedhim? Surely no man bath co e it but God hath plant_d it in the natureof the wild aile to be free, and [olive without bands or bound's.And if wefhould ask the Qeftion,who hat ir fens out wicked men free?and who hath lootedthe bands ofthe wicked? Thecnfwer mutt be, Satan hath done ir, and their own evill hearts have done it : they have broke thebands,and raft away all cords from them,they have fct them- felves free, in Inch a freedome as is is, which is tr,deed perfc& thraldom:, to their own lufts,, and the laws of the Prince ofdark- neffe ; they are not free bybeing delivered from the bondage and condemnation of the law, but by, calling off, all obedience and luhm.filon to ir. Se, orsdly, Wild allies are extreamely violent and Impetuous in their defires or lulls. 7eremr expostulating with the ?ewes about their revolting from, and rebellion against God, compares them (Chap. z. z..) to A wild affe ufed to-the wildernrs, that fnnffeth up the winde at her pleafure,in her occafion the can turn her away? all they that feekeher, will not weary themselves, in her moneth they Thali fi.tde her; there's no malting, no dealing with the wild affe while luit is upon her,fbe will have the. delire of her keart iffha can. Thus wicked men are given up to and tranfported with their pleufures and inordinate affeefions, in their occalìrn, that is, when cbe.h ate.oftheir.intemperatedefiresorlutls,ofany,kind,areup- oda.
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