CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

2. The godly man would be undone if God did not keep him from his own imbecility and infirmity; He hath no power to preserve himself from misery; Hence man is called Enoch, and in the New Testament [Greek or Hebrew], So that he doth not only deserve all misery but he is prone of himself to fall into it, did not God keep him, Job 14.1. and Job 5.1. Man that is born of a woman is full of trouble, even as the Sparks fly upwards; So that as the Spark if not stopped doth of it self ascend upward; Thus man of himself though there were no outward cause to drive him, yet would stumble and fall into all desolation; Therefore the great troubles men lye under are self-created, they come by our indiscretion, blindness, or some sinful way or other; Therefore Solomon observeth that a mans misery is great on the Earth, because he hath not judgement to discern the times and seasons of things, Eccl. 8.6. If therefore God did not keep the Godly man, no Child would sooner fall or run into the fire then he would into mischief; You may read of that good King Josiah for whom the Kingdom made such Lamentation, how foolishly he ran upon his own Death, 2 Chro. 33.22.

2. The godly man would be undone if God did not keep him from his own imbecility and infirmity; He hath no power to preserve himself from misery; Hence man is called Enoch, and in the New Testament 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, So that he doth not only deserve all misery but he is prone of himself to fall into it, did not God keep him, Job 14.1. and Job 5.1. Man that is born of a woman is full of trouble, even as the Sparks fly upwards; So that as the Spark if not stopt doth of it self ascend upward; Thus man of himself though there were no outward cause to drive him, yet would stumble and fall into all desolation; Therefore the great troubles men lye under are self-created, they come by our indiscretion, blindenesse, or some sinful way or other; Therefore Solomon observeth that a mans misery is great on the Earth, because he hath not judgement to discern the times and seasons of things,