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GOD
THÉ ONLY REFUGE
FOR
THE SAINT IN
TROTJELE.
application
to
God,
and
if
our
souls
are
in
bitterness let'
us
vent
it
to
him.
The
second
doctrine
which
may
be'
raised, by
compar-
ing the-first
part of
the verse
with
the
second,
("
thou
contendest
with
me,
") may be the
following,
viz.
Doc.
2.
That
a
fúll
persuasion
that
it
is
God's
own
hand
which afflicts
a saint,
does.
not
afright
him
from
seeking
to
his
Father.
Though
he
looks
at
God
as one
who
at present
uses
his
rod towards
him,
yet
he looks
at
God too
as
the fittest
person
he can apply
to.
We
find
David
frequently
does
this:
when he complains
and
mourns
before the
Lord
under
the chastisement
of
his
hand,
he
does
not
fly
from
his
God, but
draws
nearer
to him,
A
child
of
God
well
knows
that it
is
in
vain to
cry
unto creatures
when
God
afflicts him
;
for
they
must
all say
there
is
`nothing
of
help
or
consolation
in
them
:
there
is
nothing
in them
can give them
;
for
if God
hide
his
face
who can
speak
peace
?
.
There
is
nothing
in
any creature,
but
as
God's
wisdom
shall
see
fit to make
creatures
the
instruments
of
his
own
dispensations towards
us
;
and
therefore.we can
receive
no
mercy
from them,
but
as
God
ordains and
per
rtiit3
it.
This a
child
of
God
well
knows,
and
so
applies
to the
first cause.
It
is
God
alone
sets us
low,
and
he-
alone
can raise
us high
again.
"
I
kill, says
God, and I
make
alive,
it
is
my
prerogative
to
do
both."
In
the
faith
of
this,
a
child
of God
flies
to
his
father, though
his
father'
afflicts him.
It
is
the
character
Of
a
sinner,
and one
that
is
far off
from
God, that
he
knOws
not God,
and
has
no
true
faith
in
him,
but
runs
further
from God,
when
God
from heaven strikes
him.
So
that rebellious
king
of
old,
Jehorarn
the
son,
of
Ahab,
when he
had been,long
under
the correcting
hand
of God,
said,
"
I
Will
wait
for
the
Lord
no longer,
for this
evil
is
of
the
Lord." But
this
is
quite
different from
the
character of
holy
Job,
who
flies
to
God,
and
resolves to
" trust
in
him
though
he
slay
him."
Doc.
3.
Every
child
of
God
knows
that
God can
charge
him
with
much
guilt,
though the
eye
of
man can-
not
see
him
guilty.
"
I
will
say
unto
God,
Do
not
con
-.
demn
me."
Job
therefore well
knew
he had something
justly
con,..