under ſad Providences is oppoſed to waiting. The Salvation of the Lord refers to the outward Man, in preſerving or delivering us fromdangers. Or tothe Soul and inward Man, in preſerving us from, anddelivering our Souls out of dangers they fear, or evils they are preſſed with. Now fora Man in the midſt of all evils to hope in God, and without turbulence or diſorder in himſelf, to, wait for a preſervation from, or adelivery cut ofany evils, is what becometh a Man ( a Child of God eſpecially ) and will turn to a good account to them.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth 5. |
h Good here muſt be expounded in the ſame ſenſe as in the fore- going Verſe. Iris not pleaſant, bur it is profitable, icis honoura- ble, what becomes us, and is eur Duty, quiety and patiently to bear what afflition God will pleaſe to lay upon us, to reſtrain our wild and wanton Spirits when they are moſt prone to be too brisk and laſcivious. Some by Toke underſtand the Law of God, called a yoke ( becauſe indeed 1t is ſo tofleſh and blood ) Math. 11. 29: It is not ſo eafie to bend a Neck ſtiffened with Age, or change an Hearr made hard by Cuſtom. $ lomn bids us to train up one in their Youth in the way we would have them ro walk ; and whether God will tame us when young, by his Word »r by his Rod, it isof ad« vantage to a Man; Ir is alſo laudable, and what becomes a Man, early to bear the yoke of Gods Law, or to bear afflitive Providences, to tave his Heart betimes humbled go the Will and fear of God.
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:5 OWN Meer motion without a cauſe given him fiom the Aa 2Mifted. Hence Judgment is called Gods frange work ; ſhewing Mercy is his proper natural Work which flowerh from bimſelf without any cauſe in the Creature. Judgment is his ſtrange work ro which he never proceederh but when provoked, and as it were forced from the Creature, whence it folioweth, that he can- not delight in ir- ; '24 To cruſh under his feet all the priſoners of the
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5 The ſenſe of theſe words is doubted by notie. That nothing co- merh to paſs in the World, bur by the diſpoſal of Divine Provi- dence, either cffeQing it by an immediate influence, or permitting J it: But to what end rhefe words are brought in this place, is not ſo generally agreed. Some think they are brought in to check the Blaſ- : - phemy of | cs that ſpake of what had befailen the Jews as a thing _ which God had no hand in- Others think they are brought in as ex- pounding that term: that went befrre, The Lord ſeeth noe. Thovgh
do not approve of ſinful aftions, nor inclhne any Mars Heart