Chap. 3 t. min Expofitioss :span the ;robe of J o B. Vert. 31. 649 It will not fatisfie a godly roan to have corruption a title re. ftrain'd or abated, to have the homes and nades ofit cut and pa. red, or to have (in this fence) the feeperflrsity ofhieuareghtinefe, as the Apoll le fpeakes, removed and laydafide,but he m i pull it up root and branch, and get it utterly mortified. For though a gracious foule bleffethGod for any teller power obtained egainft Corruption, or that it doth not King and Lord it over him ; yet flee is not fatisfied with this, his defïgne is the ruine of it ; and he never leaves prayingand ftriving with Chri4 till every thought be brought into fubeftion. Thus we fee how farre holy revenge goes, and unholy revenge would got as farre in its owne way, aor will it fit downe and be fatisfied till it bath gone thus farre. Covetoufneffe is a very fwallowing and an unfatiable luft ; yet I know not whether revenge be not more unfatiable then cove- toufneffe ; it will never have done where there is any thing to be done ; This is certaine, A covetous man cannot be more infatia- ble then a malicious or revengeful) man. And feting the revenges of enraged enemies are fo unfariable, that nothingwill fatisfie them but our flefh, what caufe have we w biefle Godwhokeeps us out of their hands; wee may well fay as the Church in the Pfalme, Many a timehad we been fwaltowed up, ifthe Lerdhad not been on ourfide when men rofe up agairf# ue. Our enemies are as far enraged as ever,and as they with in fecret, O that We had of their Ph ! fowhere they may be bold they will adventure to fay it openly. What caufe then have we to bletfe God that wee have been kept from the power of bloody minded men, who would aft ifthey had opportur.itie with a rage as high as heaven,or rather with a rage as law as hell ; it would be a rage as high as heaven not only in that proverbial) fence, because it would be exceeding high, or as high as it could , but in plaine fence beceufe reflexively it would be againft God himfelfe, who is in heaven, though po;fìbiy they might pretend for God ; And it would be a rage as low as hell originally,for thence it cornes; A Spirit of Implacability is Earthly, Senfnafl, `Devilill ( James 3. 15.) 0 that wee had theirff-fh 1 wee cannot be fariafi d. There is yet another apprehenfionof the (cope ofthis verfe as it referres to the former, which f (hall but reprefent and paffe from it. The fumrrte of it may be thus conceaved ; As if 7,,b here were proving how farre he was from adefìre ofrevenge upon his O000 ene- itr
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