108 Therptcked all beepunrlhei, &c. VERSE I. Efai.i.lit 5. Efai 64.3. Efai.3o 33. Efai.47.14. ZeC11.11.3,6. Pfal,2.9. rf.Naw. 0.. they would therefore in time humble thcmfelves under his nightie hand, and prepare to meete him in the way ofhis judgements. For certainely no fooner doth the heart ofa Sinner yeeld toGod, but bee mceteth him in his returneand preventeth him with goodneffe, his heart likewife is turned withinhirn,and his repentings are kin- dled together. With much more delight will he put a man into the Armes of ChM, than force him under his feet. FIecloth notaffiit7 willingly norgrieve the children ofmen ; he taksth no pleapire in the death ofa finner, but hedelighteth in mercy. The lat.+ thing obferved was theManner oft villa- mexpreffed in thole words, Ponam, and ponam fcabel- funs. To put, and to pat as a _Poole under Chrifls feet. Now this expreffion, that the conquefl ofChrifis ene- mies (hall bee but as the removing of a floole into his place,noteth unto us two things : Firft,the eafineffe ofGods vielory over the enemies of Chrifl. They are before himas nothing, leffe than no- thing, the chop of a bucket, the duff of a ballance , a very little thing. What thing is heavier than a moun- time what thing eafier than a touch, what lighter than chaffe,or fofter thanwax? and yet theywho in theeyes ofmen are as fhong and immoveable as rnountaines, if God but touch them they (hall bee turned into chaffe, and flow at his prefence. Ifa man had adeadly peftilence and of infallible infection, how eafily might that man be avenged on hisenemy withbut breathing in his face ? Now the breath of the Lord is like a fireame of brim- (lone todevoure the wicked. As eafily as fire confu- meth flax or Hubble, as eafily aspoyfon invadcth the fpirits of the body, as eafily as arod of iron breaketh in peeces a potters veffell as eafily as a burdenfome (lone bruizeth that which it fads upon ; fo, and much more irrefiflibly doth the wrath ofthe Lord confume hisenernic. Not
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