If these Desires are with Impatience, much more if they are through' Impatience, they become sinful before the Lord. The embittered spirits of Christians, have been sometimes too prone unto such Desires. It was an inordinate passion in Moses, when a froward people under his charge provoked him to say, in Numb. 17. 14. Kill ⟨p. 119⟩me, I pray thee out of hand. Had God granted his Desire, he had lost Thirty years of eminent Service in the World. It was an irregular passion in Elijah, when the persecutions of wicked men so tired him, as to make him say, in 1. King. 19. 4. O Lord, take away my life. It hath been an Observation, that Many good and, great men sit under Elijah's Juniper tree. As culpable was the Passion of Jonah, when the Withering of a Gourd had that Effect upon him in Cap. 4. 8. He wished to die. The like pang of Impatience, did that Pattern of Patience, Job, fall into be spake as if he could hardly for bear laying violent hands upon himself. Even so far do the distempered, unbridled Wishes of many run. Their Desire of Death is a sort of Revenge on God; they would as it were deprive God of the glory which He might have of them. Compose these desires, O ye raging Souls; compose these Desires. Allay this Fever, this frenzy. Its not only an irreligious but an unnatural passion which you are carried away withal. You desire to dye▪ Well, are you sure that the Death which you desire now, will not prove a Death which you shall Deplore throughout eternal Ages. It is said of the Believer in Psal. 91. 19. With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my Salvation. It is a very disordered heart that will be dissatisfied with so great a mercy.
If these Desires are with Impatience, much more if they are thro' Impatience, they become sinful before the Lord. The embittered spirits of Christians, have been sometimes too prone unto such Desires. It was an inordinate passion in Moses, when a froward people under his charge provoked him to say, in Numb. 17. 14. Kill ⟨p. 119⟩me, I pray thee out of hand. Had God granted his Desire, he had lost Thirty years of eminent Service in the World. It was an irregular passion in Elias, when the persecutions of wicked men so tired him, as to make him say, in 1. King. 19. 4. O Lord, take away my life. It hath been an Observation, that Many good and, great men sit under Elias's Iuniper tree. As culpable was the Passion of Ionah, when the Withering of a Guord had that Effect upon him in Cap. 4. 8. He wished to dy. The like pang of Impatience, did that Pattern of Patience, Iob, fall into be spake as if he could hardly for bear laying violent hands upon himself. Even so far do the distempered, unbridled Wishes of many run. Their Desire of Death is a sort of Revenge on God; they would as it were deprive God of the glory which He might have of them. Compose these desires, O ye raging Souls; compose these Desires. Allay this Fever, this phrensy. Its not only an irreligious but an unnatural passion which you are carried away withal. You desire to dye▪ Well, are you sure that the Death which you desire now, will not prove a Death which you shall Deplore throughout eternal Ages. It is said of the Believer in Psal. 91. 19. With long life will I satisfie him, and shew him my Salvation. It is a very disordered heart that will be dissatisfied with so great a mercy.
