404 Chap. 28. An Expo.liteon xpon . tlu Book of J o B. riTerf. 2$0 ibis own heart, end in thefight of his own eyes, thatis, toaé wham foever Teems good in his own eyes. But as Solomon there gives the young man a cooler, Know thou, that for all theft things God will bring thee to Judgement ; fo I may fay, know thou, Oman, That tobe fuffered thus to rake thy ways is a judgement. As thou (halt be judged for chefe things hereafter to eternal fufferings fo thy prefent fuf}erance in chele things is a fpirieual judgement. Thehot difpleaCure of God'againtf all chofe who receivednot the love of the truth thatthey might be faved, is thus fignified by the Apofile (zThef. z. Ii.) For ehie caufe Godfhall fend themflrong . deluions that they fhould beleive a lye. And that this is the very next door to hell, the next words aflure us (v. t 2.) Mat all they might be damned, who beleived not thetruth, but had pleafurc in unrighteoufnefs. Many thoufand choufands of men fin, who (hall not be damned ; but all they who for a prefent punifhment of former fins are finally given up tothe power offin, (hall furely find and feel damnation for their punifhment. They are altoge- ther left under the guilt of fin,who are wholly left to the power of fin. How great an evil is fin, which God often: makes the left punifhmentof merl here, and when he doth fo, alwayes defgnes them to everlalting puniíhment hereafter ? Fifthly, That fin is the ;reatefi evil may be evinced and learn- ed from the means and manner of its cure. Howwas this evil re- medied ? howwas the cure of it wrought r not by the power, . not by the vercueof ay creature is heaven or earth; ^all mankind, was tainted with this infeaion;and though the good Angels were free, yet they couldnot free us from ir, nor were they, though mighty in power, able to undertake ir, Therewas no balm in any Gjilead of this world, no Phyfitianthere that could heal . the hurt of cdams poflerity. Sin was fuch a Galiah, fuch a Giantly ivionfler, as made all the whole creation Rand tremblingat his challenge ; none but a David, none but Jefus Chrif the eternal Son of God, none but he who thought it no robbery tobe equal with God, had power and goodnefs enough in him to match and matter, to combate with and conquer fan, and to heal the deadly wounds which it had given us. How great is that evil which no- chino can take away but the greateft good ? unlef a the virtue of the medicine exceed the malignity of the difeafe, no cure caa be wrought; Fah was the malignity of fins that no blood but ten
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