upqn the Epiflle of JAM! s. VBR. s.n. 79 journeys· All our endeavours 'Will be fruitles, if Gods handbe lll– gaim1~-U:as the flower to the burning heat,fo u the rich manin his waies : that is,notwithfianding all his induil:ry and care, God may foon bla!l: him; they earned wages, but put it -j,z a bag_with boles, Haggai I. 6. that is, their gaines ?id no~ thrive with the.m ?Peter toyledall night but caught nothzng, ttll he took Chn!l: mto the boat, Luk .. .o 5. 5. So you will catch nothing, nothing with com– fort and profit, till you take God along with you. 'Pfol. I 27. :a. It is vain for you to rife up early, to fit up late, to eA t the bread of fcrrows: for fo he giveth hu beloved fle ep. Some take this place in amore particular and refirained fenfe ; as if David would inti.. ' mate, that all their agitations to oppofe the reigne of Solomon, though backed with much care and indu.firy, fhoold be fruitlefs; thoughAbfalom and Adonijah,were tortured with the care of their own ambitious defignes; yet God would give Jedid, or his belo– ved reff, that is, the Kingdom fhould quietly and fafely be devol– ved upon Solomon, who took no fuch pains to court the people,~> nd to-raife himfelf up into their eil:eem,as Abfalomand Adonijah did; ~they ground this expofition, partly on the title of the :P(alme, A P[alm for Solomon, parrly on the name of Solomon,* who 41 , was called Jedid jah, or the beloved of the Lord, the word ufed 2. Sam. u. here, begiveth his beloved reft: But I fuppofe this fence is too :.4, _:z.; • curious, for though the 'Pfalmbe incitled toSolomon, yet I think not fo much by way of prophecy, as direElion : for as the 72 Pfa/m (which alfo bearerh titleforSolomon) reprefenteth to him the model ofa Kingdom and theaffairs therec>f; fo this Pfalm the model of a Famity , with rhe ~ncident cares and blej]ings of it; and therefore the paffages·of tt are of a more univerjall and utJ/imited concernmenc, then to be appropriated to Solomon; and ~ds not to be neglected rhar the Septuagint turn the Hebrew word plurally TOJ> tt'}d!7rnlo7> d.u.~ u·'71'vov, hu beloved onesJleep, Chewing that the fentence is general!; the meanin~ is then, That though ~or}dlymen.fare ne~er fo hardly, beat ~hmbraines, tire their fpints,,rack their confc:ences ; yet many times all is for nothing ; either ~od· doth not .give them an eftate, or not the comfort of it: But hts.heloved, Without any of thefe racking cares, enjoycontent– .ment; tf th~y ~ave not the world they haveJleep and reft : with fi– le-nee fuhmttcrng to the will of Go~, and with qnietnefs waiting for the bleffing ofGod: Well then, ~ck.,nowletfte the providence that .'t'•
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