The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

Untractableness under the means, is a note of great brutishness, and want of understanding. Such are here compared with the horse and mule, which in order to their breaking must be treated after a sensible manner: and the reason of it is rendered, because they have no understanding. q. d. if they had, they would not need to be thus treated. What this untractableness is, hath been handled under the former Doctrine; the brutishness and unreasonableness of it now comes under consideration. That the reason why men refuse Gods instructions, is because they are unreasonable, and act like brutes, ⟨p. 468⟩is asserted in the word of God; on this account it is that wicked men are there branded with the title of Fools; for sin is the worst folly: they then that will not part with it, are egregious fools. God chargeth his people, because refractory, for being sottish and void of understanding, Jer. 4. 22. Compares them to a mad horse in a fight, Chap. 8. 6 The wise man puts the Horse, and A•s, and Fool together, Prov 26. 3. Yea they are represented as worse then mere sensitive Creatures, Isa. 1. 3. Jer. 8. 7. That which lieth before us, is to enquire after the ground or evidence of this. Ungodly men think themselves most rational, to be more prudent for themselves, than the Children of God. Here then these things may be offered for Demonstration.

UNtractableness under the means, is a note of great brutishness, and want of understanding. Such are here compared with the horse and mule, which in order to their breaking must be treated after a sensible manner: and the reason of it is rendered, because they have no understanding. q. d. if they had, they would not need to be thus treated. What this untractableness is, hath been handled under the former Doctrine; the brutishness and unreasonableness of it now comes under consideration. That the reason why men refuse Gods instructions, is because they are unreasonable, and act like bruits, ⟨p. 468⟩is asserted in the word of God; on this account it is that wicked men are there branded with the title of Fools; for sin is the worst folly: they then that will not part with it, are egregious fools. God chargeth his people, because resractory, for being sottish and void of understanding,