that are of a poor spirit and ready to faint in the sight of their sins or fear of Gods displeasure some are of a tender spirit and should be handled tenderly Rough speaking or doing would even quite over-set them and bring them to a despairing faintnesse In such cases we should note and be tender and pour in oyl to heal their wounds so did Christ Esa 50.4 he spoke a word in season to him that was weary and it hath been said nothing doth so discover a man to be spiritual or according to the mind of Christ as the gentle handling of another mans wounds Use 2 But let these careful souls help themselves by ways and means which the Lord hath appointed Help against fainting fits As against bodily faintings we get hot waters and other helps so should we against these faintings of spirit As thus 1. Get thy faith strengthned as much as may be Faith is a special reviver of the soul in evil times Ps 27.13 I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living as how because it draws vertue from Christ and from his intercession who is a quickning Head and from the promises and covenant which also have an enlivening power and it gives the poor soul a view of heaven to fetch life again 2 Cor. 4.16 17 18. for which cause we faint not but though our outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day for our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen those temporal these eternal 2. Wait upon God in the diligent use of his Ordinances Cant. 2. these are the flagons which stay a soul that is sick of love to Jesus Christ and see Esa 40.29 30 31. he giveth power to the faint and to them that have no might he increaseth strength Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly faâ—l But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk and not faint Christians ye converse daily in Ordinances adde diligence and good conscience and your faintings will wear off by little and little No such Cordials as the Word and Sacraments well improved 3. Pray and it shall be done God is he that sendeth this faintness into the soul and it is he that must take it away Levit. 26.36 I will send a faintness into their hearts and he that wounds must heal again He that cast Jonah into the Whales belly and into the fainting fits did set all at rights again I will look up again toward thy holy Temple I remembred the Lord and my prayer came in unto thee unto thine holy Temple Here Jonah amplifies his prayer by the hope he nourished amidst his great danger he was not without some hope even when he fainted most and thought himself cast out of Gods sight And all these three days and nights he was well employed A good soul at lowest hath some working toward God for comfort and deliverance and ought to be well employed during the time of his affliction Yet I will look again toward thy holy Temple that is Heaven A good soul from the belly of hell can look toward heaven as here Jonah No distance of place Note Out of hell seâ—â— heaven nor lowness of condition can hinder this prospect Steven amidst the stones looked up and saw the heaven open and Jesus standing on the right hand of God Moses in Pharaohs wrath and threats saw him that is invisible and endured all Micaiah saw God on a throne and was hardned against his meeting of wicked Ahab Reas 1 All from the nature of faith which is the evidence of things not seen Heb. 11.1 By faith Abraham saw the day of Christ and rejoyced By faith he and the old Believers embraced the promises By faith Paul and his fellow Apostles looked not at things seen which are temporal but at things not seen which are eternal and They walked by faith not by sight that is spiritual encouragements not carnal Use A good memenâ—o for a Saint in low condition whether by sickness or otherwise Upward upward below all is black and uncomfortable but upward all is clear and joyous Make use of thy faith to carry thee far above all these tumults fogs and confusions why a sword by the side and not defend against a thief why faith in the heart and not strengthned by it in threatning evils why as heartless and comfortless as he that hath no faith to support himself Remember how David rated away his unbelief Psal 42. Why art thou cast down O my soul and remember how our Saviour chode Peter for fearing Mat 14 31. Why didst thou doubt O thou of little faith Ob. Sol. Oh but I have something sticks by me that is of an higher importance my sins which are many and great Answ So had Jonah at this time he had greatly sinned against God in refusing the service imposed and said he was cast out of his sight but mark the adversative Yet I will look toward thy holy Temple he would not seal his disobedience with unbelief and impenitency one sin to another They say Judas did worse by despairing then in betraying his Master And mark the word again he had conversed with God formerly and found comfort while he held on in a course of duty but now upon this baulk made the sweet communion was interrupted therefore he saith again so thou though thy sins be many and great yet return yea though they be relapses yet again come to thy God by repentance there is a promise for healing our backslidings Hos 14 4. Though man will not pardon faults by recidivation yet God will Jer. 3 1. thou hast played the harlot with many lovers yet return again to me saith the Lord. And if comfort come not presently yet look again as Jonah here at thy first looking thou mayest misse of mercy but look again it will come at last at the last looking rain came according to the prayer of Elias When my soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord. A Believer finds a good remedy against his fainting fits Note Remedy against fainting fits to remember the Lord. Where note First there is an head-remembrance which stands chiefly in speculation as that there is a God that he is able to help us in misery that he sees and knows our estate and can put forth mercy and power for our relief If thou wilt thou canst make me whole Secondly there is an heart-remembrance when we look upon God as our God and trust in him and cast our selves upon his care and love to do for us according to our need whether for soul body or
1 Cor. 15 55. or separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ Again O death where is thy sting O grave wheâ—e is thy victory Which is seen sometimes of them that said heretofore There is but a step between me and death between me and hell All which makes against the vain confidence of idle Use 1 Christians who presume to know Gods mercy toward them without any doubting A thing which divers godly and serious men have not yet obtained and sometimes fear they shall never obtain Here we will examine a little the fears of the one Godly mens fears are hopeful and the hopes of the other For the fears of the godly 1. The Lord orders all their fears and tenderness of spirit to their greatest good as here the fear of these Ninevites first they are affrighted with the horror of a suddain overthrow and this fear works them to repentance that they shall escape the denounced overthrow So still generally it is the Lords method in bringing souls home to himself first out of security to convince them of a bad estate and so let them repent and seek after God let them be sick and see their need of a Physician let them be pricked at heart and ask what they must do to be saved and Did ye see him whom my soul loveth can ye give me any sure mark of my being in Christ can this or that stand with the truth of grace I am afraid I am not right in the main I doubt that all this while I do but deceive my own soul Of which tenderness the Lord makes this use to bring forth judgement to victory He will not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoaking flax his power is manifested in his peoples weakness and his grace shall be sufficient for them 2. The fears of godly men put them into cares about the means of grace and about such a course of religiousness as they may make their calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 So pray and so read and so hear and so receive Sacraments and walk so strictly and orderly as God may please to shew them his salvation Psal 50.23 Timor facit consiliatives Fear makes men Clients so to secure their Estates by repairing to their learned Counsel so here for the estate of the soul And a discreet man newly recovered out of great sickness narrowly observes his diet and so gets more health perhaps then a stronger man so here and this is the phrase of working out salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2.12 3. This kind of fear hath the promise of blessedness Prov 28 14. Blessed is the man that feareth alway namely with a Childlike and holy fear fear to offend care to please and perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord. The tenderness of such is the heart of flesh Ezek. 11.19 which the Lord by Covenant said he would give his people and he will be their God and they shall be his people he will forgive their sins and remember their iniquity no more and will so put his fear into them that they shall never depart from him But if carnal persons have any fears concerning their spiritual estate it never works in such a manner all passeth away in flashes Be rid of them as soon as ye can and be merry while ye may away with this melancholy and be jovial For the hopes of idle and vain Christans Wicked mens hopes are fearful who doubt not a whit of Gods love to them I say thus 1. They are disgraced by the subject that is the persons in whom they are loose and vain persons None but the godly have the right hope which will last in a sad houre Pro. 14.32 the righteous hath hope in his death Such at worst are prisoners of hope Zech 9.12 Ever since they were converted they have been in an hopeful condition For others their hope shall perish it shall be as the spiders web or as the giving up of the ghost Profane persons and hypocrites never went upon a good foundation and so all their building lies in the dust 2. True hope is grounded in faith and in reconcilation with God thereby We hope well because we know whom we beleeve and he is the hope of Israel Jer. 17 13. the Saviour thereof in the time of need So we are saved by hope Rom. 8.24 But this is skipped over by these persons A general hope of mercy shall serve the turne 3. True hope ariseth out of regeneration and dwells in the new creature 1 Pet. 1.3 God begets us again to a lively hope But numbers have all their hope from the first birth beleeve in God ever since they can remember never do bred since they were born Pitie he should live who doubts of his salvation which is too fine and easie to be good Jonahs gourd sprung up in a night and withered in a night The like we may say of these Mushromes 4. True hope yeelds the benefit of strong consolation in foul weather that lies upon the soul Heb. 6.18 19. it is an anchor sure and stedfast By hope we have seen him to live who was about to dye David had fainted but that hope held him up by the chinne Ps 27.13 I had fainted but that I hoped to see the goodnesse of the Lord in the land of the living But the heart of an hypocrite 1 Sam. 25. when brought into great danger dyes in him as Nabals The house built on the sand when the windes and stormes came fell quickly and great was the fall thereof 5. True hope fs cleanly wherever it comes both as to the heart and life 1 Joh. 3.3 Every one that hath this hope purifieth himself even as God is pure It is of the same nature with the mother Acts 15.9 26 18. which is Faith and purifies the heart Hope is neither sloven nor slut but so is the hope of many expect much at the hands of God but live in their sins which is against all reason as if a man should stand for prefermeâ—t yet lives so as to be uncapable Use 2 Christians be perswaded so to order your course as ye may grow up to some comfortable assurance of Gods love to your soules that though ye get not the full assurance of faith yet ye may have much assurance or if not much yet some assurance Do all that may help your faith against your feares and that your hope in God may be cherished which ye will find to be very good when you come to lie on your death-bed or be cast into great affliction to say 2 Tim. 1.12 I know whom I have believed c. There be some that should think of the great change by conversion Some have not yet repented nor made their peace with God and may well think that it is they who must repent and not God Repentance notes a change in the creature Jan. 1 17. not the Creator With
as they can Why then they shall keep out of hell so much the longer Prov. 14.32 None but the righteous hath hope in his death Others by well using the means of grace and accepting the offers of grace should labour to become righteous namely by justification and sanctification For the latter God gently chides Jonah for his anger about the gourd and Jonah stoutly replyes upon God in way of justifying himself Two strange passages see a little what instruction they yield us to glorifie God and condemn sinful self For Gods gentleness he doth not take Jonah at his word when he wished to dye but only gives him a gentle chiding as ver 4. Doest thou well to be angry but there he was angry for sparing of Nineve Chide gently here for losing of the gourd Both times God is very meek to him chides him but as gently as may be Imitate chide as occasion requires but chide with mildness and in a treatable manner try whether ye cannot reprove sin with some love to the sinner use milde words and strong arguments we ought to be follower of God as dear Children Eph. 5.1 Doest thou well to be angry and he said I do well to be angry even unto death Note the strength of affections When we are angry Note Affections unruly we are apt to be angry to death When we grieve our worldly sorrow causeth death When we desire we are all on fire and dye if we be not satisfied When we love we fall to doating and so in other particulars Cant. 8.6 Love is strong as death jealousie is cruel as the grave See hereby how much need there is to bridle affections with reason especially with Religion Use 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Well are they called unreasonable and need to be carefully ordered We have our affections common to us with the beasts but have reason to curb them as beasts have not and as Christians we have rules of Religion where natural reason can do little and even those that are religious finde enough to do in mortifying their passions and regulating their affections matter of much and constant care before-hand and of sorrow afterward Jonah was a godly man and yet ye see in what a pickle he is and with how much grief he is likely to return into his own Country But mark how God expresseth the object of Jonahs great anger the gourd a filty shrub for which he had not laboured nor made it to grow it came up in a night and perished in a night yet he is angry even unto death and tells God he doth well to be angry Note Apt to be angry for small matters We are sometimes apt to be very angry for small matters things not worth the joy while we have them nor the grief or anger when we forgoe them as for example If we sustain a little loss If a small cross befall us If a little discredit light upon us or an opinion of difered it c. Weak minds and strong fancies do us much ruth in these cases Our hearts are set too much upon them Reas and we are too much wedded to our own wills and in present think we shall never be recruited of such comfortable accommodations so take on as if there were no comfort to be had as Hagar when a well of water was near unto her And here no doubt but there were other shrubs thereabouts to which Jonah might have repaired or if not this is not the first time that shrubs and Trees too have been blasted Use be patient Take heed Christians and bewray not such weakness about these trifles Say if I keep patience so little in these poor things what shall I do when God comes to take away my life what if my house should fall on fire and all my goods consumed to ashes what if all my Children were slain at a clap as Jobs were even there I must submit and be patient possess my soul and inherit the promises much more in the matter of shrubs Object Answ 1 Oh it was a witty Child and a towardly Answ Whatever it was it was not too good for him that took it away and he saw thy doating and he intended good by the affliction No doubt but some of Jobs Children were pretty and towardly and we read they were very loving one to another And we easily conceive that a gourd to a Booth was a pretty accommodation Oh I shall never get the like comfort if I live never so long Answ 1. Thou doest not know if not in kind yet thou mayest have as good or better 2. To a good soul one God is better then ten Sons an hundred houses millions of gourds or the best of creatures Oh there is the question whether God love me or no I am sure he takes away my comforts but I am not certain that in Jesus Christ he is become my God Answ 1. The assuring of Gods love to the soul is a business to be done at all times not only in troubles losses and afflictions but even in our greatest prosperity and when we have gone farthest about our evidences Even Believers themselves must give diligence to make sure their Calling and Election 2 Pet. 1.10 2. Certain it is that neither the enjoying of earthly comforts is a sign of Gods love not the losing of them a sign of his wrath or hatred Eccl. 9.2 None can know love or hatred by all that is before him Yet this is a case wherein some godly Christians do sometimes too puzzle and perplex themselves But I conclude with this stout reply of Jonah upon God Reply not against God Doest thou well to be angry yea I do well to be angry even unto death He shewed strange weakness before that he was so angry for a trifle but now he bewrays some wickedness that he answers God so stubbedly and with some degree of blasphemy We might say as Rom. 9.20 Nay but O man who art thou that replyest against God Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus We have little now to say for Jonah and his goodness but only that first he writes these things of himself though to his own great shame in the Church for ever secondly he gives God the last word as yielding at last to the equity of spiring Nineve Go and do thou likewise Luke 1 Note Use And let us all learn to be wise especially those that are apt to be hasty and cholerick Passions in the strength of them do tend unto blasphemy Observe them how they come upon thee and be exceeding watchful against them Augustus for staying his anger was counselled to say over his Greek Alphabet distinctly Theodosius in the like case must stay forty dayes between a bloudy decree and the execution Some for want of such deliberation have broken forth into horrible Butcheries Others into horrible blasphemies Cursing and Swearing And David blessed God
servants of sin but have obeyed from the heart he dâ—ctrine delivered Rom. 6.17 An argument there to urge a real holinesse to dye to sin and live to righteousnesse Learn also to do good with those temporalls which God Use 2 hath cast upon you so unexpectedly Honor the Lord with thy substance Do good with such mercies the rather Pro. 3 9. Deut. 8.11.26.5 Psal 116.12.103.1 and with the first fruits of all thy increase When thou hast eaten and art full forget not the Lord thy God Hence the offering of the first fruits in the Law and the paying of Tythes and the confession A Syrian ready to perish was my Father and Jacohs confession With my staff I went over this Jordan and now I am become a rich man and Davids deliberation with himself What shall I render to the Lord for all his henefits Blesse thou the Lord O my soul and all that is within me blesse his holy Name And the censuring of the unthankful Lepers when cleansed Ten were cleansed but where are the nine Luc. 17.17 Here let none take up an evil thought as if excused because he hath faithfully laboured for what he hath gotten Other Scriptures require it of the painfull and laborious or tell how God gives strength to get substance Deut 8 18. and how without the blessing of God all a mans labor will com to nothing Ps 127.1 2. Still therefore he is the great Benefactor and must be so acknowledged Without him and some grace from him thou hadst been idle rash undiscreet a spend-thrift or crost in thy way of getting Much lesse think What need I labour if God gives his blessings to them that labour not Not so for he hath set an order from the beginning of the world that in the sweat of our brows we must eat our bread Man is born to labour as the sparkes fly upward Be not slothfull in businesse None may walk disorderly but labour with his hands the thing that is good So that Gods preventing us with goodnesse is no warrant for any to be idle and cast care away Idlenesse is a sin and such are threatened to be cloathed with rags So in spiritual things all are bound to a diligent and conscionable use of the means of grace whereby they may get into the favor of God and be saved Lie at the pool to be healed of spiritual maladies Wash in Jordan to be cured of the leprosie of thy soul Dives his brethren were sent to Moses and the Prophets to beleeve them if they meant to escape the place of torment 2 The Lord tells of sixscore thousand infants in Nineve Note 2 Our infants regarded of God which argues the hugenesse of the citie twice before called a great citie and now we see it must needs be so by this proportion what were all the Citizens put together The Lord sees and respects the multitudes of people that are in the world young and old infants and all that know not the right hand from the left one hundred and twenty thousand of them millions in Constantinople in Grand Cairo Paris other great Cities one hundred thousand families of Jews in Alexandria beside the other Citizens four hundred twenty and eight thousand heads at Rome upon a just accompt so of others London York Bristol all particular Towns and Countreys He that calleth the stars by their names and counts the number of them keeps accounts also of young children And as he feeds the Ravens when they cry so he provides for us and our little ones He told Abraham Psal 147.3 how his posterity should be as the stars of heaven and as the sands of the sea-shore for multitude and how he meant to advance them The reason whereof is taken from the infinitenesse of his divine perfections He makes all Reas and he preserves all as a Creator and as a Father he undertakes by covenant for the godly and their seed saying I will be thy God and the God of thy seed These Nivevites were heathens Gen. 17.7 and yet their little ones were thus respected What then shall we say of Believers and their off-spring Now magnifie God in this his large and yet special providence Use 1 In that Psalm it stands among the arguments of praise and thanksgiving Ahasuerus by his great and long Feast did shew forth the Majesty of his Kingdome yet we read of no children among the guests but our great Feast-maker gives entertainment continually to young and old even all the millions in severall countreys Meditate and see how the glory of God will swell in thine eyes We admire great House-keepers who keep many in family and provide for every one decently and in very order The Queen of Sheba was ravished in mfnd to see the order and glory and provisions of Solomons houshold But behold a greater then Solomon is here infinitely more guests and better provisions Use 2 Again this affords comfort to believing Parents whom God hath blessed with abundance of Children Comfort to Parents and sometimes they have careful and heavy thoughts how to provide for them especially what will become of them when themselves are dead and gone alass poor creatures what will they do If they were grown up and able to shift for themselves I should care the lesse but they are young and tender and my heart is much troubled for them Now remember wbo looked upon Nineve and there noted six score thousand who could not discern between the right hand and the left And he is the same God still infinite in all his Attributes and as loving to our little ones as ever he was to these of Nineve one of them far better then all the Ravens in the world and yet God feeds every of them and the Angels have a charge of our Children as well as of our selves Mat. 18.10 and it hath been seen that God hath raised poor mens Children and set them among Princes Psal 113.7 8. Onely let Parents be advised in three things 1. To lay hold upon the Covenant for themselves and their little ones get God to be thy God and the God of thine A carelesse Parent in this respect is but a sorry friend to his poor Babes Mark to whom the blessing is entailed Psal 103 17 18. The mercy of nhe Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him and his righteousnesse unto childrens children To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his commandements to do them 2. To pray for their Children that they may be respected in special love and find mercy with the Lord as did Father Abraham Oh that Ismael might live in thy sight Gen. 17. He that can pray should exercise his gift in praying for his poor Children As for the Church State health harvest other interests so specially for the souls of his Children and their eternal welfare 3. To give them religious education bringing them up in the nurture and admonition
estate 2 Tim. 1.12 I know whâ—m I have believed the desire of our heart is to the remembâ—ance of thy name Oh but David remembred God and was troubled Ob. Sol. Psal 77.3 Answ David was now under a temptation as appears by ver 10. I said it is my infirmity But I say more there is something in God which may trouble even a good soul namely his justice his displeasure at sin his revence for sin sometimes upon his own children and these arm his other Attributes against the soul of a sinner viz. his holiness his power his wisdom his soveraignty his providence and government all terrible where the guilt of sin lies upon the soul which possibly might be Davids case at this time mine or thine But let weak believers take this instruction Use when ye find these fainting fits coming or already come upon you remember the Lord and stay your hearts on him remember him in that form in those relations as he stands to a Believer Remember him as the Lord in covenant as the Lord thy righteousness as the Lord merciful and gracious as the Lord pardoning iniquity transgression and sin as the Lord that bears a most watchful eye of care and providence over thy person and estate that remembers his covenant and thy frailty and knows when a deliverance will be most seasonable Though a Mother forget her Child yet will not I forget thee saith the Lord yea though we forget duty as Jonah did at this time yet will he remember to be gracious And though we know not what to do for our own deliverance in any kind yet he knows well enough and will do it for us he knows to deliver the righteous out of trouble My prayer came in unto thee into thine holy Temple Note Good prayers use to come up before God and get a merciful consideration as Jonahs Salomons Hezekiahs Cornelius others The reason is Christ takes the prayers and presents them to his and our Father Rev. 8.3 4. It is one chief part of his Priestly Office intercession as well as satisfaction and he will be sure to do it to the uttermost he appears for us and makes requests in our behalf Use 1 An encouragement to be much and often in prayer Is it not a speedy way Every good husband will insist in the way wherein he may thrive apace and so should a Christian in the way of praying Audience in prayer is one of the priviledges which belong to a Believer and one of Gods Attributes is that he is a God hearing prayer Use 2 And it teacheth a Believer when he hath made his prayer to the God of his life and mercy to rest assured he shall prevail one way or other as here My prayer came into thy Temple and elsewhere We know we have the Petitions we ask of him and he will speak peace to his people For why it is his promise Ask and ye shall receive seek and ye shall find c. Ver. 6.8 10. Thou hast brought up my life from corruption O Lord my God They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving c. Here the Prophet amplifies his prayer by the effect it had namely his deliverance out of that great danger Parts Thou hast brought up my life from corruption O Lord my God And this is farther illustrated 1. By the contray in Idolaters who misse of mercy because they seek not to the true God v 8. 2. By the thankfulnesse he means to shew for the deliverance v. 9. 3 By the particularizing of the deliverance and how it was effected v. 10. Thou hast brought up my life from corruption O Lord my God There be many in this company that may truly say Note God hath brought up my life from corruption at such a time I was very likely to die I had one foot in the grave I had made my Will and bid farwel to all the world yet it pleased God to add more time to my days I am yet in the land of the living among old friends and neighbours and the time that remains in the flesh I ought and partly have promised to spend in the service of God better then formerly But Whether do I speak those words in way of hearty and Use 1 real thankfulnesse or only in form Examine whether delivered in mercy have I serious purposes indeed to improve this life of mine for the service and glory of God or do I now think of those vows and purposes to perform them effectuaâ—ly If I do do I put forth my best and truest endeavours to bring them into act when Jonah had escaped his great danger he went and did the message though to as great a danger When Hezekiah had been sick and recovered he set to praise the Lord all the days of his life Now these examples are written for our instruction to do the like as bad examples are to be avoided so good examples are to be followed Whether by general mercy or special And if we do not the deliverance out of danger will prove only a common mercy that comes of the general providence of God whereby he saves man and beast and his Sun shines and rain falls on good and bad True Jehovah raised thee out of thy great fit of sickness or some other mischief but thou canst not yet say the Lord my God and yet that is the only right receiving of mercies when one is able to say Thou hast brought up my life from corruption O Lord my God There is a vast difference between these two Saved by the true God and saved by the Lord my God Consider the word especially in 1 Tim 4.10 he is the Saviour of all men especially of them that believe And let all fall closely upon this point to make it sure Use 2 to our own souls The Lord my God My Lord and my God said Thomas my Redeemer said Job he loved me and gave himself for me I pray what think ye is it not great difference to say A good summe of Gold and Silver and This is my Gold and Silver even so is it here A man may be poor enough though he see heaps and treasures of money so in spiritual treasure Know the only happiness stands in the appropriation my God Blessed are the people that have the Lord for their God Psal 144.15 In these Ordinances therefore the main design of Christians should be to make Christ sure to their souls and so be able to say my God my Saviour my Redeemer Him we preach as the chief matter of our pains-taking and in his Name we make offers of the favour of God to be thy God and thine 2 Cor. 6.1 and thine Now receive not the grace of God in vaiâ— be sure to do this business which is the main business to be done Heb. 12.29 and if it be not done this thy God will