Z. Dotir. 3. 4r=y I, I r. TPfat. 18.V. i Job L I.. r 94 rt o V E R B s. Chap. i. rience (wee doubt) will more fully informe them hercaf. ter , than all that wee can fpcake to the points may doe for the prclent. In1lrudion , toprcuent thefedcfperateand hellifh (caret, by holy and liuely feares ; as to tremble at the rhreatnings of the Law , before thou haft finned , and fo efchew that which is cuill : to trembleat the fight ofthine offences, af- ter thou haft finned, and focome to repentance: tobehold how others are pun;ihed for their tranígreffions, and fo take heede thou commit not the like , or continue not in the like , but let the flrokesvponthem be inf}rutions to thee, and be thou admonifhed by their miferies. ThenJhall they call upon me, &c.] The ddpifers ofGods word , are many times driuen to make bootelcirc prayers in their di ark iTea. Theworld goethhard with them, and in a wofull plight they are,when they mull put themfelues to a peece of works which they haue euer deemed fis tedious, and burdenfotre, as to pray, and cry, and earnetlly to fake God for f uccour, nothing but extreame necefíity can compel! them to this, notwithflanding the time will come , w hen their neede !hall require it, when theymull ncedcs bebrought to it, and yet benothing holpen by it. The Lord foreknowcthwhen theywill come, ant! ther . fore bath already determined not tobe foundofthcm in fa- uour, not tobe intreated to thew themmercy ; for fohe te1- leth them : Whenyou [hall f retch ora your hands , Iwill hide mine eyesfromyou : and thoughyoumake many prayers, Iwill not heare. Datsid law experienceofGodsfeuerity in reie ling the [applicationsof his finfull aduerfaries , as himlelfe tef}i- fieth; They cryed, but therewar none toface them, eaten vnte the Lord, but bee anfwered them not. And lob alío before thofe dayes, had obferued, and knewwell that the wicked werewont to call vpon the Lord in their calamities , andat their deaths, but lot} their labour : For (faith lice) What hopebath the hypetrttswhen beebath heapedvpriches , if God t4*f.4W4y his Aldo ? Will Godhere his cry when trouble core- meth
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