Chap. 3 i. An Expofiaíon upon the Boob, of jÓ s. Veil, 23. 5 5 able to deliver himfelfe, nor canhebe refcued by anyocher, out ofthe punifhing andrevenging hand ofGod. And as there is no getting out of his hand, fo no keepingout ofit; we can rey[her flee nor hide our felves from him who is every where. 'ris grie vous, when a man falls into the hand ofhis confcience, b caufe he canneither flee,00r hidehisufelfe from his confcience ; everyman carrieth that about him, wherefoever he goeth. This (I lay ) makes a mans cafe unfpeakeably miferable, when he fails into the hands of his own confcience. And is it not touch more fad, when a man falls into the hands of God, who can be infinitely more terrible to us then our confciences, and who only makes our con- fciences at any time a terror to us ? Remember finners, you can no more (no nor fo much) get out ofthe hand, or cicare from the hand or pretence ofGod,thenyoucan from the handor pre - fence of your owne confciences. Ve herher foever yougoe, God is with you, whether youwill or no. whether/hall we gee from hid pref'nce ? if we afcend up into heaven, he ie there; and if we make Cur bed in hel, he is there, &c, ( P¡el. s 39._8. ) And where foever we are ( fuppofewe could be in heaven, yet) if an angry confci- ence and an angry God be withus, we make cur bed in hel, or our bed is aHel to us. Hew can creatures comfort thole to whom God is a terror ?'Woe to finners, who provoke that God, whole pretence they can neyther abide nor avoyd. Thus ?ebbath given an account both of his integrity (in thofe particulars opened) and likewifeof the reafon why he kept his integrity. De f rtullicnfrom Clod was a terror to him, a, d by rea- fon ofhis higbnefs hecould not endure. As 74would not fin againft God becaufe he loved him, fo he durst not fin againfl God , be- caufehefeared him. He now proceeds to give a further account of hitnfelfe , by [hewing that as he had not gotten riches by unrighteoufnefie, fo he had ufed and difpenfed them righteoufly ; for fuppofe a man bathnot pulled his riches out of the mouthes and bellyesof the Poore, nor bath wronged any man by openviolence, or fecret f aud, to advantage his owne eftate; yet he may beanunrighte- ous Steward, or a covetousretainer of his date: his heart may goe out finfullyupon thatwhich came in without fin ; Againft this Yob protefts in the nest words. ! u U 2 J O 1 31.
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