_ .. Chap. 3b. An expofatian upon the 'Book of J o R. Verf. 27. 2.-4 It is exccedin. painfull and affditlive to wig( our expec .ations, or not to receave thegood which we hope and waite f;r When we looke forevill, and expe& the coming of trouble, 'cisburdensome & grievous enough when, it comes ; But to meet with evil when we waite for good, doubles the weight of evil. To be croffed in our expectations, makes our crofTe heavy and our bowels boyle. Then howwill the bowels of wicked men boyle in forrow, forever when they (hall be quite fruftrated of their hopes and loofe all their expectations? fuch are often full of hopes, and bigge with the expectation of good thing, not only in this life but in the next;They hope their foules (hall goe ro heaven when their bodyes goe to the grave ; they looke for light even the light of glory after the darkneffeof deoth,but darkñefte shall be their portion, and they (hail goe to thegenerationof theirfathers, where they Ball never fee light. In the 7Lh of Mathew (v. 24. ) we find wicked men looking for , yea laying claime to glory; They anocke at tie:ven gate, as if they had much acquaintance there, yet all they (hall heare from Chrift is, I never knewyou, depart frommee ye that worke iniquitie. Owhat boylingofbow- els will chele men feele in the fire that never goeth out, When holy tab found loch a boylingofhis bowels in a fire that quickly went out ? My bowels boyled, the dayes of afflia`lion preventedmee. Hence note , Pirft. Theholiefl and bell' ofmen, are apt to thine affliEtiors farther (f from them then theyare. We uíiaally fay, Bad Hewes comes before it is looked for. Every godly man thir:ks he may fall into affii &ion ; But though bee bath a fence of this upon him, that afflictions may come; yet he thinks them further off then they are,or that they will not corne fo (Done as they doe. The Prophet (peaking of voluptuous fen- fualifts fayth ( Amos 6. 3.) They put the evils day farre from them. And as thefe put it farre from themfeives, fo the falle Pro- phets affured others, that it was not only farre from them, but fhould never overtake them, ( per. 14. is.) Therefore tkus faith the Lord concerning the Prophets that prophete in my name, L 1 z and
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