fore (inners, howyou ufe the Spirit when he comes, knocking at' ' the door of your hearts : Open at his knock, and he will be your- gueft, you fhall have his tweet company; repulfe him, and you have not a Promife hee'll knock again. And if once he leave ftri- ving with thee, unhappy man, thou art loll for ever; thou heft like a (hip call up by the waves upon frame high rock, where the tide never comes to fetch it off Thou mayeft come to the Word, converfe with other Ordinances, but in vain. 'Tis the Spirit in them, which is both tide and winde, to let the foule afloat , and carry it on, or die it lies like a (hip on dry ground which firs not. Secondly, we wrefle againft God whenwe waffle with his Providence, and that two wayes ; Firfl, when we are difcon- tented with his providential difpofureof us. Gods carving for us doth notpleafeus fo, but that we are objecting againft his dealings towards us, at leaf muttering fomething with the foot in our hearts, which God heares as lightly as man our words. God counts then we begin to quarrel with him, when-we do not acquiefce in, and fay Amen to his Providence whatever it is, He calls it a contending with the Almighty, lob 4o. r. yea, a ;e.. proving of god. And he is a bold man lure that dare finde fault with God, and article againft heaven. God challengeth him, whoever he is that cloth this, to anfwer it at his peril. He that re- proveth God, let himanfver it,v. z. of the chapter fore-mentioned. It was high time for lob to have done, when he hearts what a fenle God puts upon thole unwary words, which drop's from him in the, anguifh of his Spirit, and paroxyfme of his fufferings; contend with the Almighty ? reprove God ? Good man, how blank he is, and cries out, /am vile what /ball 1anfwer thee 1 Witt lay myhana' "'pan my width. Let God but pardon what is pall-, and he fhall hear fuch language no more. 0 Sirs, take Ned ofthis wrefiling above all other. Contention is uncomfort- able, with whomfoever it is we fall out. Neighbours or friends, wife or husband, children or fervants : but worff of all with God. If God cannot pleafe thee, but thy heart rifeth againft him, what hopes are there of thy pleafing him, who will take no- thingkindly from that man who is angry with him ?, And how cane love to God he preferved in a di!contented heart, that is taw ayes muttering qoainft him? Love cannot think any evil of God,
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