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…

Lastly, Which is the case of this text, the Saints may grow weary of their lives from the outward afflictions and troubles of this life. Sickness and pains upon the body, poverty and want in the estate, reproaches and unkindnesses put upon our persons, with a thousand evils to which this life is subject every day, cause many to wish and long for an end of their days. And though they are ready to submit to the vvill of God, if he have appointed them to a longer conflict with these evils, yet they cannot but show their willingness, yea their gladness to part with their lives, that they may part with such troubles accompanying their lives.

Lastly, Which is the case of this text, the Saints may grow vveary of their lives from the outward afflictions and troubles of this life. Sicknesse and pains upon the body, poverty and vvant in the estate, reproaches and unkindenesses put upon our persons, vvith a thousand evils to vvhich this life is subject every day, cause many to vvish and long for an end of their daies. And though they are ready to submit to the vvill of God, if he have appointed them to a longer conflict vvith these evils, yet they cannot but shew their vvillignesse, yea their gladnesse to part vvith their lives, that they may part vvith such troubles accompaning their lives.

And as the afflictions of the body natural, so of the body politic may make them weary of their lives. How many in Germany and Ireland have been so wearied with hearing the voice of the oppressor, that they have wished themselves in their graves, only to get out of their hearing. And with us, since ⟨p. 425⟩these troubles began, have not many been tired with living? Have they not cried after death, and wooed the grave, as being weary of the world? The Prophet (Isa. 32.2.) speaks of a weary land. A man (meaning Christ) shall be as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. The land it self (being insensible) could not be weary; but he calls it a weary land, because the inhabitants living in the land, were wearied with the troubles and continual vexations which they found there. In these cases the soul of a believer stands (like Abraham when the Angels passed by) at the tent door of his body, ready to come forth, looking when God will but call, yea, he cries out, that he may be called (in the language of Job) My soul is weary of my life.