Chsp, z4 . An Expoi£tion Minn the Book of J OB. Verf. t 8. 603 fand vanities,and finful wayes,as thewinds toffe the waves ofthe Sea ; Lufts are ftrong and'boyfterous, lulls aremany and nume- rous, he that ferveth any one of them is a flave to them all and muft goe upon their errand whetherfoever they will fend or ra- ther hurry him. Secondly, Càrnali men muff needs be fwift as the water, or light upon the water, very unconftant and unfetled if we confider the temptationsthat blow upon them from without. For though our own lufts are temptations, and every man (as the Apoftle ?antes faith, Chapter i. 14.) it tempted when he isdrawn away of kid on lieft, andenticed, yet our tufts alto are tempted, or our lasts are drawn away and enticed by temptation. Man is apt e- nough to fin ofhimfeife alone, if once God leave him, but he is feldome left to himfelfe alone tò fin by the Devill ; and moft ufu- ally he is tempted wich a kind of violence unto finne ; his lulls (which are a fire) are blown and kindled by Satans breath,and he is driven to doe evil by vehement blafs oftemptation. Tempta- tions blow upon Saints, they blow frotagly upon them ; Satan breaths opt a mighty wind to make them fwift as the water unto fm ; but they have received a power to refift and Rand fait. They are founded upon the rocke Jefus Chrift ; Though the winde moves the water, S et it cannot move the rocke : they that are founded upon Chrift, are (in their proportion) firme as Chrift himfeife is firme. 'Tis true,Saints aremany times grievoufly fha- ken a ith temptations bat the wicked are coifed and overwhelmed by them. They are fwift as the water, or as the lighteft thing upon the face ofthe waters,when ftrongly moved by temptation. Dying 7ewcb called Renben,his firft- born,unfJable as water (Gen. 49.-4.) though we will not number himamong thewicked , yet he did a very wicked aet, and in reference to that, thoughhe was a great man, and a Patriarke,rlae bead ofthe Tribe, yet (in refe- rence to that at ) he received this Chara&er, unflable ae water. And if he was io unftable when hurryed by paffion and temptati- on,howmuch more aremeer wicked men fo,when they meet witn filch temptations. For as they are not fixed in any thing that is good,as was touched at the r 3 th verte, They l¿oow not the waves of light,nór do they abide in the paths of it(if at any time they Rumble opon the doingof that which is right, yet they abide not in the doingof it ; they are light as the water, imitable(' and unfetled in Hhhhz all
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