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The second point is, that God sometimes gives wicked men pleasure in the ways of sin, whilst ¹he suffers his own people to endure much affliction. The Israelites make the brick, and are under sore bondage, and the Egyptians dwell in houses, living in jollity and mirth. Thus it was with Elijah, he must fly for his life, and live in caves, and be fed by ravens, whilst four hundred false prophets are fed deliciously at Jezebels table. While the King and Haman sits drinking in the city, Shushan is in perplexity, Esther 3. 15. Job says of the wicked, That ²they take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound ⟨p. 110⟩of the Organ, they spend their time in wealth; but of himself he saith, that his calamity was heavier then the sand of the sea, that the arrows of the Almighty were within him, that the poison of them drank up his spirit, that the terrors of God did set themselves in battle array against him. Chap. 6. 1, 2, 3. And David says of the wicked, that they are not in trouble as other men, their eyes stands out with fatness, they have more then their heart could wish; but for himself, all the day long he was plagued, and chastened every morning, Psal. 73. Christ tells his Disciples, the world shall rejoice, but they shall have trouble.

THe second point is, that God sometimes gives wicked men pleasure in the ways of sin, whilest ¹he suffers his own people to endure much affliction. The Israelites make the brick, and are under sore bondage, and the Egyptians dwell in houses, living in jollity and mirth. Thus it was with Elijah, he must flye for his life, and live in caves, and be fed by ravens, whilest four hundred false prophets are fed deliciously at Jezabels table. While the King and Haman sits drinking in the city, Shushan is in perplexity, Esther 3. 15. Job says of the wicked, That