A Christian Directory

§. 35. Direct. 17. To this I spake in the end of the first Part of this Chapter. No man is so great¹ and wise as God. See whether he say as they do in his word! The greatest that provoke him can no more save themselves from his vengeance, than the poorest beggars! What work made he with a Pharaoh! and got himself a name by his hard heartedness and impenitency? He can send Worms to eat an arrogant Herod, when the people cry him up as a God! Where are now the Caesars and Alexanders of the world: The Rulers and Pharisees believed not in Christ; John 7. 48. Wilt not thou therefore believe in him? The Governor of the Country condemned him to dye; and wilt thou condemn him? The Kings of the earth set themselves, and the Rulers take counsel together against the Lord and his anointed, saying, let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us, Psal. 2. 2, 3. Wilt thou therefore join in the Conspiracy? When he that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision—He will break them with an iron rod, and dash them in pieces like a Potters Vessel, unless they be wise, and kiss the Son, and serve the Lord with fear before his wrath be kindled and they perish, Psal. 2. 4, 9, 10, 11, 12. If thy Landlord or Great ones shall be thy God, and be honoured and obeyed before God and against him, trust to them, and call on them in the hour of thy distress, and take such a salvation as they can give thee: Teach not God what choice to make, and whom to reveal his mysteries to: He chooseth not always the Learned Scribe, nor the mighty man: Christ himself saith, Matth. 11. 25. I thank thee O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes: ²Even so Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight! If this reason satisfy you not, follow them, and speed as they. If they are Greater and Wiser than God, let them be your Gods, 1 Cor. 1. 26