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…

Secondly, The voice of flesh and blood also speaketh after this manner in ¹heavy troubles, That they will unto thee, that there can never come any good out of this to thy self; that it would have been far better for soul and body, if the Lords hand had not been in this manner upon thee. Here also that false and corrupt principle is a liar within thee. For David, who at sometimes is apt enough to be cast down, and exceedingly troubled, yet upon his recoveries can say, Out of very faithfulness thou hast afflicted me; and before I was afflicted I went astray, Psal. 119. 75, 67. Thou shouldest therefore do as the Apostle in another case, making objections against Gods dispensations, Rom. 3. 5. saith, Is God unrighteous? And then correcteth his speech, I speak as a man. Thus art thou also bound in all the unsavoury workings and discontents of thy soul, to rebuke thy self, saying, I think now as a man, I speak as a corrupt sinful man. Yea David, getting some power against these sinful motions within him, abhorreth himself in an higher degree, Psalm 73. 22. So foolish was I and ignorant, even like a […] before thee. Hearken not then to those tumultuous thoughts and reasonings within thee, which ⟨p. 275⟩would persuade thee, that there can never any good come to thee out of the present evil upon thee, that God cannot create light out of this darkness. For as Adam was undone by hearkening to Eve, and yielding to her temptation: Thus flesh is like an Eve within thee, that will betray and destroy all at last.

Secondly, The voice of flesh and blood also speaketh after this manner in ¹heavy troubles, That they will unto thee, that there can never come any good out of this to thy self; that it would have been farre better for soul and body, if the Lords hand had not been in this manner upon thee. Here also that false and corrupt principle is a liar within thee. For David, who at sometimes is apt enough to be cast down, and exceedingly troubled, yet upon his recoveries can say, Out of very faithfulnesse thou hast afflicted me; and before I was afflicted I went astray,