An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Art thou a living man not a damned man, and doest thou complain? Think, what if thy condition were like those that are chained up in everlasting darkness, gnashing their teeth, and roaring out for the endless torments that are upon them? Wouldst thou not then judge this condition thou art in, though afflicted and troublesome, to be a mercy? Certainly if the damned in hell are bound to acknowledge the justice of God, and to give him the glory thereof, though it be in their confusion; How much rather art thou bound to give God the glory of all his Attributes in these dispensations to thee, though bitter to flesh and blood? Take heed then of being like Jonah, of saying, Thou doest well to be angry. It is an ease to pour forth thy complaints. For what, doth God do thee any wrong? Doth not the worm that eateth up all thy comfort breed in thy own breast? Is not thy destruction from thy own self? Certainly if any thing, this may stop thy mouth, and quietly compose thy soul. But

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Art thou a living man not a damned man, and doest thou complain? Think, what if thy condition were like those that are chained up in everlasting darkness, gnashing their teeth, and roaring out for the endlesse torments that are upon them? Wouldst thou not then judge this condition thou art in, though afflicted and troublesome, to be a mercy? Certainly if the damned in hell are bound to acknowledge the justice of God, and to give him the glory thereof, though it be in their confusion; How much rather art thou bound to give God the glory of all his Attributes in these dispensations to thee, though bitter to flesh and blood? Take heed then of being like Jonah, of saying, Thou doest well to be angry. It is an ease to pour forth thy complaints. For what, doth God do thee any wrong? Doth not the worm that eateth up all thy comfort breed in thy own breast? Is not thy destruction from thy own self? Certainly if any thing, this may stop thy mouth, and quietly compose thy soul. But

Secondly, Not only the apprehension of thy guilt may thus rebuke all storms ¹