Chap. 3 I. An Expoftion upon the Eooke of J o a. Verl. 1g. 613 you thinke your felves fafe as aFifh under water, but I will fend fuch among you as (hall caft in their hookes andnets to take you ; And though you get to your Coverts as wild beans, yet I will fend hunters to you, that thall purfue you , and overtake you, and find you our. Thirdly, This manner offpeech (when evill foundhim) notes .Qrraod iovesiJi the fecurity and carelefsneffe ofa firmer; He is often without fo fet esmmalt nt. much as the leaft fufpiti®n, or thought of evil!, when evil! is rea- dy ''e `zt " eYa" o catch holdofhim evil! finds the firmer when he doeh not to ea f triet. Aquiva thinke of it, or when he loft expects ir. Hence note. ûnlooktfor evil!, overtake thetaToone" who run on fafteft in doing evil!. They (hall fay as Ahab to Eliah, Haft thou found me O mine enemy ; yes, Eliab found him ; Ahab had been feeking Eliab,but could not find him ; But Eliab found Ahab. Thus will every fn- cure fanner be forced at laff to fay of the evills whichGod fends upon him, Have youfound nee ?Theywho have moff caul to ex" peel evil!, expeffit haft; And they who are alwayes ding evil!, put the will day, and the evil! ofthe day furtheftfrom themfelve.e. Whenfoever evil! comes & finds them,it finds them unprepared, it finds them unfitted, it finds them (as that text in Luke which fpeakes of the evil! fervant) eating, and drinking, and beating their fellow"fervants; they are quite upon another bu. neffe, they are hot in doingevil!, and they fide thinke,much leffe, fear, that evil! will find them. IfI lift upmy Idle when evil/found Laftly, From this whole verfe wa may obferve, how much the patience of Beleevers differs from the patienceof the belt ofhea- thens, whether in bearing troubles, or forgiving injuries. It is granted that feverail ofthem have a ledvery high toappearance in the exercife of that vertue. r .?riftotle advifed Alexander the Great, That he looking upon himfelfe as a manabove all men, (hould never take notice oforbe moved at theill words and re- proachful! fpeeches ofany, but negle& them. When one (truck Cato unawares in a bath, and prefently askt his pardon ; Cato an- fwered, Idoe not remember that any manftruek me. He thought it better not to acknowledgethat he had been flrncken,then con difcend to pardon him that did it. And whenaboyfterous perlon abufed
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