An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

First, Carnal men are often sick with discontent, and die of a humour: If the Lord will not give them their lusts, they bid him take their lives. Necessaries and competencies will not satisfy them, they must have superfluities; they languish, if they have not quails to their Manna, as Israel once desired and had. Was it any thing but this, which made Ahab go home sullen and sad? Sullen sadness is a degree of this weariness. Ahab had a Kingdom, and yet he could not live without a vineyard. He that takes away another mans life to obtain what he desires, thinks his own life searee desirable, unless he may obtain it. There was a spice of this distemper in Jonah, though a good man, and a Prophet (Jonah 4.8.) because the Lord did but kill his gourd, kill me too, saith Jonah, He wished himself to die, and said (his gourd being dead) It is better for me to die then to live. It is an excess of desire, when we desire any outward thing (much more when we desire things unnecessary, things not to supply our wants, but to serve our lusts) As Rachel did children (who are the best and noblest of outward things) Give me them, or else I die, (Gen. 30.1.)

First, Carnall men are often sick with discontent, and die of a humour: If the Lord will not give them their lusts, they bid him take their lives. Necessaries and competencies will not satisfie them, they must have superfluities; they languish, if they have not quails to their Manna, as Israel once desired and had. Was it any thing but this, which made Ahab goe home sullen and sad? Sullen sadnesse is a degree of this wearinesse. Ahab had a Kingdom, and yet he could not live without a vineyard. He that takes away another mans life to obtain what he desires, thinkes his own life searee desirable, unlesse he may obtain it. There was a spice of this distemper in Jonah, though a good man, and a Prophet (Jonah 4.8.) because the Lord did but kill his gourd, kill me too, saith Ionah, He wished himself to die, and said (his gourd being dead) It is better for me to die then to live. It is an excesse of desire, when we desire any outward thing (much more when we desire things unnecessary, things not to supply our wants, but to serve our lusts) As Rachel did children (who are the best and noblest of outward things) Give me them, or else I die, (