Chap. 29. an expo/ition ssl+on the Book J o B. Verf. 2, 431 plies of his Spirit. Fourthly, he preferves us by flopping the fup- plies of our inward enemies,our lu(ls,fo thatithey flarve and can- not alhault us. Fifthly, He preferves tome from greater fins by letting them fall into leffer fins, wbich both awaken their own confciences, and the jcaloulie of others concerning them. Chri(l can make our dangers prefervatives, our (Hare a table, and caufe that which bath been an occafion of our falling turn to our good. Thus as the natural, fo the fpiritual creation is followed with watchful eye of providence. He that madeall things uphold them (Heb, t , 3.) This priviledge we haveby the fecond Adam above what we had by the firfi Ne were made upright in the firf+, we are kept inour uprightnefs by the fecond 4dam. In the fir(t we had a power to (land if we would, in the fecond we have a power to keep us from falling. That's a comfortable promife (7er. 3 s. io.) Hear the word of the Lord,O ye Nations, and de- clare it in the 1fies afarof, and fay, he that (tattered ¡frae!, will gather bine,and keep him as a Shepheard doth his flock. Keeper of Ifraet, is one of Gods names and glorious Titles (Pfal, a 21.4.) Behold, be that keepeth Ifrael fhali never flamber norfleep. Aswe want a keeper fo we have one, and he is a Pure one ; his care is not only without end, but without intermiffion, He never¡lambert nor fleeps. And thus the Prophet expreffeth ar once thevengeance of God upon the enemies of his people, and his .watchfulnefs for their prefervation (Ifa. 21. r, 2, 3.) In thatday the Lordwith his fore andgreat andftrong fword(ball puni(h Leviatban,tbe peirce- ing ferpent, even Leviathan that crookedferpent, and be (hall flay the Dragon that it in the Sea in thatday fingye cants ber,a vineyard of red wine, I the Lord do keep it, 1 will water it every moment, left any hart it,Iwill keep it night and day ; that is, mine eye (hall always be upon it. As the Lord plantshis vineyard, fo he fenceth ir, and makes a tower in the midfl of it UP: i . 2.) to (hew that he watches over it. This care of cGod towards his people, exceeds the care of a nurcing Mother toward ber tender infant (Ifa. 49. It 5,16. ) Can a woman forget her lacking child, that floe paid not have compafon on thefon of ber womb ? Irr were a kind of pro- digie in nature if fhe (hould ; yet this unnaturalnefs is poffible to nature (as it follows in the fame verfe)yea theymay forget;but this is impoffible (becaufe it implies an impotency and deficiency) to the. God of nature,wbo i0alío the Codof all grace sled mercy,.. a3^
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