And towards this Sense doth Sanctius seem to understand that Complaint of Job's, uttered to his Friends concerning those Terrors of God, which he felt within him, Job 6. 4, 11. verses compared; Is my Strength the Strength of Stones? Or is my Flesh, my Nature or Constitution, of Brass, that I should be able to encounter with this Indignation of the ⟨p. 136⟩Almighty? Stones and Brass have no sense in them, (or but a dull sense, if their Opinion should hold true, de sensu rerum,) they have no Blood nor Spirits to make them sensible of these Arrows of God's Anger he had spoken of, vers. 4. Ay, but Job meaneth to say, I have a Soul made of other Metal, suited to God, the great Spirit, whose Arrows I feel, which is exquisitely sensible of all his Actings. Take the Statue of a Man made of Brass, or cut out of Stone, and slash and cut him, and he feels it not; but cut the same Limbs that answer to these in a living Man, made of Flesh and Blood, with the same knife, and what Torture is it? You may see this, and aggravate it to your selves, by what inferior Spirits to this great Father of Spirits, as Angels and Devils, can work upon Man's Soul, that is a Spirit like themselves, being yet inferior to them. When Saul had but one evil Spirit sent from the Lord, how distracted and terrified was he, tho in the midst of the enjoyments of a Kingdom? 1 Sam. 16. 14. Also that great Apostle, that had his Spirit fortified, as having been newly feasted with the Joys of Heaven, and that not as at a distance only, but as a Spectator, that stood by, present there, 2 Cor. 12. ⟨p. 137⟩Yet one Angel, Satan buffeting him, he was so disturbed and put to it, as he knew not what to do, or how to bear it: only God told him, My Grace is sufficient for thee. Well, but do Mens Souls in Hell fight with Flesh and Blood, yea, or with Principalities and Powers chiefly? No, that is but whilst they are the Rulers of this World, as there 'tis added. And yet if these Spirits have such power over our Spirits to buffet and terrify them; what hath God the Father of them?
And towards this Sence doth Sanctius seem to understand that Complaint of Job's, uttered to his Friends concerning those Terrors of God, which he felt within him, Job 6. 4, 11. verses compared; Is my Strength the Strength of Stones? Or is my Flesh, my Nature or Constitution, of Brass, that I should be able to encounter with this Indignation of the ⟨p. 136⟩Almighty? Stones and Brass have no sense in them, (or but a dull sense, if their Opinion should hold true, de sensu rerum,) they have no Blood nor Spirits to make them sensible of these Arrows of God's Anger he had spoken of, vers. 4. Ay, but Job meaneth to say, I have a Soul made of other Metal, suited to God, the great Spirit, whose Arrows I feel, which is exquisitely sensible of all his Actings. Take the Statue of a Man made of Brass, or cut out of Stone, and slash and cut him, and he feels it not; but cut the same Limbs that answer to these in a living Man, made of Flesh and Blood, with the same knife, and what Torture is it? You may see this, and aggravate it to your selves, by what inferior Spirits to this great Father of Spirits, as Angels and Devils, can work upon Man's Soul, that is a Spirit like themselves, being yet inferior to them. When Saul had but one evil Spirit sent from the Lord, how distracted and terrified was he, tho in the midst of the enjoiments of a Kingdom? 1 Sam. 16. 14. Also that great Apostle, that had his Spirit fortified, as having been newly feasted with the Joys of Heaven, and that not as at a distance only, but as a Spectator, that stood by, present there, 2 Cor. 12. ⟨p. 137⟩Yet one Angel, Satan buffeting him, he was so disturbed and put to it, as he knew not what to do, or how to bear it: only God told him, My Grace is sufficient for thee. Well, but do Mens Souls in Hell fight with Flesh and Blood, yea, or with Principalities and Powers chiefly? No, that is but whilst they are the Rulers of this World, as there 'tis added. And yet if these Spirits have such power over our Spirits to buffet and terrify them; what hath God the Father of them?
