51,E Chap. 3r. .4n ExpóFtion upon the Book! of Jo a. Verf23 the throneofPrinces,or Princes from their thrones(?0.13 18.) Say to rice King, and to the Aueene bumble leer (elves,fit dorent for your principality(hall come downe, even the Crowre ofyour glo- ry.. The Lord put' the Qzeftion to the higheft and the ftrorgeft ( Extk. a2. 14.) Can thy heart endatre,or can thy hand beJi,,eng, in the day that 1 /hall deale with thee ? As if he had fayd H tr firong and highfnever thou art, yet when .1the mil high cue fhall deale with thee, thyfirentth willf{and thee in no fítead ; It will be inconfi-derable, and fhrinke to nothing. That's the ground of the Api$les objurgation, De ye provoke the Lord tojealeufie? are ye _granger then be ? (r Cor.ra.zz.) can you hand it out with him? are ye his march ? Is a Thifile any match for the Cedar, or a wheipe for a Lyon ? much km, infinitely let£° is man for God. How eafily can the Lord thùnderdowne from his highnefs, and from his high places, upon the headsof the talleft sAnakjm.c and mightíeft Nimrod' in this lower world! And if they who are high, cannot endure nor Rand before the highnefs of the Lord, what (hall become ofthem who are low ? As the Apoftle Peter argues inanother cafe ( `Pet. 4. 18 ) Ifthe righteous fcarfely be faved, oehere.lball the ungodlyand thefanner appeare ? So I may in, this, If the atone cannot at all Rand before him how (hall the weake and poore? And if the weake and poore ones prefure to fïnne, and provoke the Lord, they (hall find his highnefs as terrible to them, asto the higheft, richeft, and greateft in the world. Thirdly , From that other reading of the words, By realmof hip Highnefs Icould not efcape. Obferve. "'linoman is able to heart the wrathofGod, fo no man is able t o flee or get awayfrcm it. And how fad is it whena man cannot efcape from that, which he cannot endure ! If the difpleafure of God were Euch as we could avoyd or run from, Inch as vie could get out of the reach ofit, fanners had fomewhat to Beare thetnfelves upon ; but as we are not able to Rand in his hand, norendure his hand, fo we can- nor get out of his hand. Now, as no man,,no nor theDevil with all his powers of darkneff is able to plucke a believer out of the tptoteaing and.faving hand ofGod ( io. 29.) fo no man is able,
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