Lastly, Mr. Broughton renders the words thus, God speaks once, yea twice, and man will not mark it. We say, man perceiveth it not; he saith, man will not mark it. As our reading shows the weakness and imperfections, or the negligence and slothfulness of man, when he doth not perceive what God speaketh; so his showeth the obstinacy of man. The will of man is as perverse, as his understanding is blind. Man hath not only a wound or a weakness in his will unto that which is good, but he hath a rebellion in his will against that which is good, and that not by some occasional disgust or sudden gust of passion, but he is naturally set and resolved against that which is good. Man will not mark what God speaketh in his word and works. Christ upbraids the Jews (Joh. 5.40.) Ye will not come unto me that ye may have life; he chargeth the fault upon their wills. 'Tis certain man hath a will not to come to Christ for life; yet that is a forced and far fetched inference which some make from it, that man hath therefore power and ⟨p. 279⟩will to come. Sure enough man hath a will not to come, he hath not only an inability, but an enmity and an opposition in his will against Christ: he will not come to Christ that he may be saved, but would take up his salvation somewhere else; he would be his own Saviour, or let any one save him, rather then be saved by Christ; all things considered, especially this, that he must deny himself, and neither be found trusting to his own righteousness, nor acting any unrighteousness, if he desires to be saved by Christ. And as there is a resistance in the will of man against the true dispensation of Gospel grace; so against any other dispensation whereby God speaketh to him. The unchanged will of man riseth up against the will of God manifested in his works, as much as against his will manifested in his word (Isa. 26.11.) Lord, when thy hand is lifted up they will not see. If his hand be lifted up in public judgments they will not see it, if in family or personal judgments and afflictions they will not see it, but shut their eyes and hoodwink their own understandings. Yea, they are oftentimes so wilfully, or rather so madly blind, that they had rather say it is the hand of blind Fortune, then the hand of the Almighty and All-seeing God. Now who is so blind as they that will not see?
Lastly, Mr. Broughton renders the words thus, God speaks once, yea twice, and man will not mark it. We say, man perceiveth it not; he saith, man will not mark it. As our reading shews the weakness and imperfections, or the negligence and slothfullnesse of man, when he doth not perceive what God speaketh; so his sheweth the obstinacy of man. The will of man is as perverse, as his understanding is blind. Man hath not only a wound or a weaknesse in his will unto that which is good, but he hath a rebellion in his will against that which is good, and that not by some occasionall disgust or sudden gust of passion, but he is naturally set and resolved against that which is good. Man will not mark what God speaketh in his word and works. Christ upbraids the Jews (Joh. 5.40.) Ye will not come unto me that ye may have life; he chargeth the fault upon their wills. 'Tis certaine man hath a will not to come to Christ for life; yet that is a forced and farre fetcht inference which some make from it, that man hath therefore power and ⟨p. 279⟩will to come. Sure enough man hath a will not to come, he hath not only an inabillity, but an enmity and an opposition in his will against Christ: he will not come to Christ that he may be saved, but would take up his salvation somewhere else; he would be his own Saviour, or let any one save him, rather then be saved by Christ; all things considered, especially this, that he must deny himself, and neither be found trusting to his own righteousnesse, nor acting any unrighteousnesse, if he desires to be saved by Christ. And as there is a resistance in the will of man against the true dispensation of Gospell grace; so against any other dispensation whereby God speaketh to him. The unchanged will of man riseth up against the will of God manifested in his works, as much as against his will manifested in his word (Isa. 26.11.) Lord, when thy hand is lifted up they will not see. If his hand be lifted up in publick judgments they will not see it, if in family or personall judgments and afflictions they will not see it, but shut their eyes and hoodwink their own understandings. Yea, they are oftentimes so wilfully, or rather so madly blind, that they had rather say it is the hand of blind Fortune, then the hand of the Allmighty and All-seeing God. Now who is so blind as they that will not see?
