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Chap. 32.
An
Expofation
upon
the
Bock
of
o B.
Verf.
]
..
further
moved
?
(AEts
2t.
t4.)
When
Pads
friends
fame
hewould-
not
be
perfwaded,
they,cea;
ed :
they had
ufed much perfwafion to
-keepe him from going
up
to
ferirfdlem, becaufe
of the
fufferings
that
were prophe
+.ied
Should
befall him
there, yet
when he
hood
out,
in
an
holy obhinacy again('
them,
cloathed with
a
gracious
fpirit of
courage
to
Puffer
for
Chrifl
:;
when
he
woaald
not be
per-
fwaded they ceafed,
fayinq,
the
will of
the Lord
be done.
As
it
was
the
height
of Paul;
holuaefs
that he would
not
:be perfwaded,
he
was
obhinate
for
Gods cafee, or
for
the doing
of
a
duty
;
fo
it
is
the height of
many mens
wickednetfe that they will not
be
per -
fwaded, they
are
obtlinate
againff
God,
or agatnh the
doing of
their
duty.;
Such
as
are
infe'aed
with
the
full
of
contending,
will maintaine
that
opinion
pertivacioully,
which
they
cannot
maintaine.
tritely. As
Come
hrtve
for
the love of victory, rather
then
of truth
;
fo
others ilrive
becaufe
they love
hrife
even
more
then victory,
and had_rather
contend then conquer,
becaufe that
puts
..an
.
end
to hrife.
In
fuck cafes
they
doe belt
who dna
no
more;
And if
jobs cafe
had
been
fuch,
if
he
had
held up
the
dif-
courfe, not
for
truth but for victory, or
becaufe
'he
would
have
the lah word,
like
a
clamorous Sophifler,
who
hath
alwayes fome-
what
to
fay,
though nothing
to the
purpofe
;
In that cafe,
I
fay,
yobs.friends had done wifely
incealing
to
anfwer
;
They
indeed
did
well upon
their
owne fuppofition,
though
as
to the
truth.
of
Tabs
condition they failed greatly. lob
was
not
a
man
of
that fpi-
ric,
he
that perfills
in holding and
defending
truth
,
is
not oblii-
nate
but conhant.
Further,
as
to
the ground
why
they ceafed, according to their
.fuppofition,
Obferve
To
be
righteous
in
ear
owne
eyes
is`hastefaill both to God
and
good
men.
A man
is
never
fo
vile
in
the
eyes
of
thofe
who can
diicerne
him,
as
when he
is
righteous
in his
owne
;
how
righteous foaver
any man
is,
he
fhould be
little
in owning
it. To
infili much upon
our
,owne
righaeoufnelfe, favours rankly
of
a
Phárifee
(
Lake
a
8,
9.
)
Chrifl fpake
a
parable
to
this purpofe (
that's the
title
of
the
Parable)
(ver.
g.)
And
hefÿal`e
this parable
anta certain which
trailed to
themfelves
that
they
were
righteous, and
dej
ifed others.
Then