Chap.-3o. Áßs Expo/lion upon the Booke of J o a. 'Vert: 28 269 fons, either, fielt, becaufe he is afraid, or fecondly, becaufe he is pained, or thirdly, becaufe he wouldbe helped and comforted. lob cryed, and hecryed vehemently, upon the latter two, if not upon all three three reafons. Hence note ; To cry out in paine, is not inconfftentwith patience. 4 was aman ofpatience, yet he cryed out ; as he cryed out before in prayer, fo here for Paine, and fúccour in his paine. The patienceof Jefus Chrift hod a perfeft..worke (as the Apoftie ( ranter 1.4. ) advi.eth and exhorceth ours fhou'd) et when he was in the ex'remiry of his fufferings, lees cryed out ; Even He fay th the Scripture, (Heb. 5 7.) in the dayesofhie itlb ff red up prayers and fupplications, wit/ firong cries and tearer, unto hinter that was able. to lavehimfrom death, and was heard in that bee feared. The Evangelift .Mathew tells us , bee doubled his cry, ( C'bap. 26.46.) :/bout the ninth 'sore 7efsu cryed with a loud v..yce,Paying, Eli, Eli, Lamafabachtbani, that is to fay, my Cod, my god, why haft thouforfaken mee. And`at the 5oth verfe ; /e- pee when iee.had cryed againe with a loud voyce yeelded up the G.bof}. Here was cry upon cry, when Jefus atilt had cryed, hee cryed againe and gave up the ghoft ; Then he gave his bittereft cry, his bearing groane, when like a woman in Travaile to bring forth that bleffed Barth life for iís,: he gave up bis ovine. It is not unbecoming a man of firongeft courage , ea of firongeft vscit faith to cry out in great extremities; Chritt did it who had the Excirat conrearto ti, es ftrongeft courage and the fulineffe of grace. To cry out mur- ut =hurl foist mu ingly, is not only uncomely but finfull ; but to cry out hum- at ferem, mi= bly and íer.fibly difbonours no man. A good man in great paine nsf ; fentiator. fayd, I troane, but doe notgrumble. Nature at heft, evenwhen cloathed withGrace , being pincht and pained will bemoane it felfe. 74 flood upand cried, and that not in recret, but as it fol- loweih, In the Congregation. It may queftinne4 what Congregation did he cry in May wee not fuppufe lib a prifoner in his houfe,fhtgtup inhis Cham- ber by ficknes ? How then did he cry in the Congregation ? I anfwer, though 764 went not to the Congregation, yet 'tis proba:
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