An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

There is no danger can keep a wicked man off from sin: Like the Horse in this Book (Chap. 39.22.) He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, neither turneth away from the Sword; he swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, he saith among the Trumpets, Aha, aha: though God have a Buckler, man will come upon him; yea though God have a Boss upon his Buckler to strike and wound him, yet on he comes. The Buckler of God ⟨p. 144⟩is the Law or Word of God, and the Bosses of this Buckler, are the threatenings and curses of the Law. Now, when man sins, notwithstanding the Law, which is the Buckler by which God saves and protects his honour and his holiness, his name and glory from the wounds which sinful man is ready to give him, then man may be said to run upon his Buckler. And when notwithstanding the sharp threats, and terrible curses of the Law, which are the thick Bosses with which he wounds those who transgress his Law, when, I say, notwithstanding these, man adventures to sin and transgress the Law, he may rightly be said, To run upon the thick bosses of his Bucklers. God gave Adam a Law; Of the Tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou mayst not eat: Here was the Buckler, and when he added this threat, In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shall surely dye: Here was the Boss. God sent a word to Pharaoh, Let my people go; this was a Buckler; If thou refuse to let them go, I will slay thy first borne, this was the Boss. Adam run upon the Boss of the Buckler, so did Pharaoh, and so do all wilful sinners.

There is no danger can keep a wicked man off from sin: Like the Horse in this Book (Chap. 39.22.) He mocketh at feare, and is not afrighted, neither turneth away from the Sword; hee swalloweth the ground with fiercenesse and rage, he saith among the Trumpets, Aha, aha: though God have a Buckler, man will come upon him; yea though God have a Bosse upon his Buckler to strike and wound him, yet on he comes. The Buckler of God ⟨p. 144⟩is the Law or Word of God, and the Bosses of this Buckler, are the threatnings and curses of the Law. Now, when man sins, notwithstanding the Law, which is the Buckler by which God saves and protects his honour and his holinesse, his name and glory from the wounds which sinfull man is ready to give him, then man may be sayd to run upon his Buckler. And when notwithstanding the sharpe threats, and terrible curses of the Law, which are the thick Bosses with which he wounds those who transgresse his Law, when, I say, notwithstanding these, man adventures to sin and transgresse the Law, he may rightly be sayd, To run upon the thic bosses of his Bucklers. God gave Adam a Law; Of the Tree of knowledge of good and evill, thou mayst not eate: Here was the Buckler, and when he added this threat, In the daye thou eatest therof, thou shall surely dye: Here was the Bosse. God sent a word to Pharaoh, Let my people goe; this was a Buckler; If thou refuse to let them goe, I will slay thy first borne, this was the Bosse. Adam run upon the Bosse of the Buckler, so did Pharoah, and so doe all wilfull sinners.