failed the expe&ation ofGod >where isthat care to pleafe God, that feare ofoffending him , that circumfpcdt walking, that redeeming of time, that deniall of our felves, that zeale- for him, which upon the account of his free grace in Chrift, and ourhope through Chrift, he might hope, yea challenge from us: and if we maKe God looke fo often for that which hee receives not,- ftiali we thinke it ftrar.ge if we receave not that for which we iooke> v - ' Yet doubtlefle, this was not Jobscafe ; we doe not find that he had disappointed the expedation ofGod in any thing, ( humane fraylety only excepted ) And as God gave him a high te- ftimony in this poynt, fo alfo did his owne confcience; And therefore when he faith, / lookedfor good, we have reafon to conclude that he had a good ground to looke for it, yet he tnift i", When I lookedforgood, then tvill came. Hence obferve, Secondly. A godlyman conftdtring andexamining hie ovenheart and tife,’ may find no fpeciali reafon there vrh)Gcd e.fjltlis him 5 ok canfith tvill tocome upon hintsGod takcth away good, and fends evdi upon tas for one of thofe two reafons; eyther • Firft, When we grow wanton and vaine, or play the wantons, and feed our vanity with the g iod things of God -, when weeletgoe the bridle of moderation, and fcrve our beilyes ra*- ther then the Lord Jefus in the ufe of our worldly comforts, then’cis time for God, and ufually God takes that time to take them from us, ai d give us afhes for bread, or mingle our drinkc with weeping Thus Chrift denouuceth Awoeto them that laugh row, ( Luke 6 25. ) They are not threatned with awoe mcerdy for laughing, To doe fo is not only lawfull, but innocently na- turall and proper to mao as man. But Chrift thunders a woe a- gainft ( as Solomon calls it, Eccl. 2. 2. ) mad or immoderate laughter and rejoycing in the ufe of the creature, after fuel) laughing comescrying, woe and forrow. ‘ Secondly, Evil! comes ufually inftead of the good wee looke fpr, -whenour hearts are hardned and our bowels (hut up againft all pity and compaffion towards thofe who are under the prefent fufferings of evill. This brought tvill upon ferufalemwhen fhee looked Chap. 30. An Expofttion upon the Stoke 0/ J OS. Verf. 26- 25J
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