1. Take notice of the Law-giver, Thou: It is not our equal, or one that will be baffled, but the great God upon whom thou dependest every moment. Men are easily carried away ⟨p. 24⟩to please those that have power over them, even sometimes to the wrong of God and Conscience: Hos. 5. 11. Ephraim walked willingly after the Commandment: meaning Jeroboam's Law, for the worshipping the Calves in Dan and Bethel. When we depend upon men, we consent to their commands, and study a compliance though contrary to our own inclinations. And is not Gods authority to be regarded? surely he hath the greatest right to command us, for he made us, there is none hath such a Dominion and Lordship over us as God hath; and our dependence upon Him is more than can be upon any created being, for in him we live, and move, and have our being; and therefore, Thou hast commanded, this should be a powerful argument. And mark, none can enforce his Command with such threatenings and rewards as he can. Not with such threats, Mat. 10. 28. Fear not him that can kill the body, and after that hath no more, &c. Men can threaten us with Strapado's, Dungeons, Halters, and other Instruments of Persecution; but God with a pit without a bottom, with a worm that never dies, with a fire that shall never be quenched, with torments without end, and without ease. Then for Rewards. As Saul said, Can the son of Jesse give you Vineyards, and make you captains of fifties, of hundreds and of thousands? The world takes him to have most right to command that can bid most for our Obedience. Who can promise more than God, Who is a plentiful rewarder of them that diligently seek him? Heb. 11. 6. Who hath told us of a Kingdom prepared for us; of a body glorious like unto Christs body; of a soul enlarged to the greatest capacities of a creature; and yet filled up with God, and satisfied with the fruition of himself. This is the person spoken of in the Text, to whom the Psalmist saith, Thou hast commanded us. And surely if we would willingly walk after any Commandment, we should after the Commandment of the great God. The
1. Take notice of the Law-giver, Thou: It is not our equal, or one that will be baffled, but the great God upon whom thou dependest every moment. Men are easily carried away ⟨p. 24⟩to please those that have power over them, even sometimes to the wrong of God and Conscience: Hos. 5. 11. Ephraim walked willingly after the Commandment: meaning Ieroboam's Law, for the worshipping the Calves in Dan and Bethel. When we depend upon men, we consent to their commands, and study a compliance though contrary to our own inclinations. And is not Gods authority to be regarded? surely he hath the greatest right to command us, for he made us, there is none hath such a Dominion and Lordship over us as God hath; and our dependance upon Him is more than can be upon any created being, for in him we live, and move, and have our being; and therefore, Thou hast commanded, this should be a powerful argument. And mark, none can enforce his Command with such threatnings and rewards as he can. Not with such threats, Mat. 10. 28. Fear not him that can kill the body, and after that hath no more, &c. Men can threaten us with Strapado's, Dungeons, Halters, and other Instruments of Persecution; but God with a pit without a bottom, with a worm that never dies, with a fire that shall never be quenched, with torments without end, and without ease. Then for Rewards. As Saul said, Can the son of Iesse give you Vineyards, and make you captains of fifties, of hundreds and of thousands? The world takes him to have most right to command that can bid most for our Obedience. Who can promise more than God, Who is a plentiful rewarder of them that diligently seek him? Heb. 11. 6. Who hath told us of a Kingdom prepared for us; of a body glorious like unto Christs body; of a soul enlarged to the greatest capacities of a creature; and yet fill'd up with God, and satisfied with the fruition of himself. This is the person spoken of in the Text, to whom the Psalmist saith, Thou hast commanded us. And surely if we would willingly walk after any Commandment, we should after the Commandment of the great God. The
