Inference 4.
Fourthly, We may see here, the Reason Why God doth sometimes defer to Answer the Doubts and Querie's we stick at, and most desire to be Resolv'd about: It is not only to shew His Sovereignty; But to bring our hearts to a submiss and practical acknowledgment of it. Moses was very unwilling to go on his Message to Bharaoh: Many pretences he had to put it by; when as the danger he might be in for killing the Aegyptian, was the bottom-Objection; (though he speaks it not Out.) Indeed, the men who sought his life, were now dead▪ Which, if the Lord had told him of, at first; all those excuses had probably) been spared. But He was pleased to conceal it from him, until He had brought him to a full compliance with His Will; and then reveals it to Him Ʋnask'd. So likewise, He would not take off His hand from Iob, until He had well learn'd him this lesson. Say not therefore (because you hear not from God so soon as you would.) The Lord hath ••orsaken me, My Lord hath forgotten Me: But follow that good Resolu∣tion recorded in Isaiah. I will wait upon the Lord, who h••deth his face (for the present) from the House of Jacob, and I will look for Him, v. 17.