Ver.4. HayExpreofrs concerhing Godto be avoided, 3 i 5 Take an Intlance or two in each kind. The full we have in lob in the Extremity of his tryals and terrours from the Lord. See among other places, chap. i o. v. 3. Is it faith he, to God, Good for thee that fhouldfl opprefi, that thoo Ihouldlf defpife the work of tby bands ? Ah poor worms, with whom have we to do ? who fhallfay untoa Ring thou art wicked, and to Princes ye are ungodly ; and will ye (peak f to him, who refpe6eth not the perfns of Princes, nor regardeth them more than the pooretl in the Earth? And fee what conclufions from filch thoughts as thefe he loth inferr, Chap. r4. 15, i6, 17. Thou numbreli my fleps, doff thou not watch over my fin ? my trcenfgreffon i, Pealed up in a bag, and thou fowe/l up my Iniquity. He chargeth God to be his Enemy, one that watched for all opportunities and advantages againfi him, that fiemed to be glad at his halting, and take care that none of his fns fhould be tnifne when he intended to deal with him. Had this indeed been the Cafe with him he had pc- riffled unto Eternity, as elfewhere he acknowledged. Of the other, we have an Inftance in the Church, Lament, 3. 18. I f aid my flrength aad my hope yr perifhed from the Lord. Prefent Grace in fpiritual tlrength, and future expetation of mercy are all gone. And what is got by this ? fecret hard thoughts of God himfelf are hereby ingenerated ; as v.8. When Icry and 'bout, he fhketteth out my Prayers, v. 44, thou half co- vered thy felt with a Cloud that our Prayers fhould not pafs through. Thcfe things are grievous unto God to bear, and no way ufefzl to the foul in its Conch tion.Yea they more and more unfit itfor everyduty that may lye in a tendency to its relief& deliverance. So was it with 7onah Chap. 2.4. I faid 1 am calf out of thy. fight ; all is loll and gone with me, as good give over as Con- tend, I do but labour in vain ; perifh I mull as one cati out of the fight of God. The like complaints fell alto fromFLOWS in his dikefs, Pfal. 88. TheGeneral who heard one of his Souldiers cry out upon a frefh onfet of the Enemy, Now we are undone, Now we are ruined, call'd him Traytor and told him it was not to, whiletl: he could weild bid' Sword. It is not for everyprivate Souldier on every danger, to make a Judgement of the battei. That is the S f work
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