8o V! R s.u. AnExpojitiQn, with Notes CHAp ; 1 • that you may come under the bleffing ot it, labour without God cannot profper; tfegainft God, and againfi his WilJ in his Word,will furely mifcarry. · Verfe I 2.. Blejfed u the man that endureth temptatiofJ, for \>vhen he u trycd, he foal! receive the Crown of life, • ' 1'\ 7 hich the L 0 R D hath promifed to them that love him. · Here the Apofile concludeth'all the former difcourfe \tTith age– nerall fentence, I fhall dtfpacch it very briefly, becaufe the matter of it often occurreth in rhis Epifile. · Blejfed] That is, alreadly blelftd, they are.not miferable as the world judgeth them; •tu a Chriftian Paradox, wherein there is an allll(i.on eo what is f.1id, [ob). 1 7· Behold, happy u the man "Whom God correEl:etiJ ; ~tis a wonder, and therefore he calkch the world to fee it, Behold! fo the Apofile in an oppofition to the judgment ofthe world, faith, Ele /Jd. . , is the man J rln)~, The word uftd is onely proper to the mafcu– • Bcat1u :'it, line Sex, and cherdor~ fome have* forced and obtruded fome non m~llis vel mifhapen conceits upon this Scripcure; whereas throuohour the r;tdrem_~~xa~;~a1,, Epifile we·fhall obferve our ApoHk ddighreth in the uft of this Je Vl'l, "''"~ v> C r ./'. ,, ' t '1 a virtute ammi word ror both tt'Xes, as verJ c: 2 3• avh. .1. 7ra,X.:i"l-d.m, A man behotd4 viro;-c fidei.vi· ing hisface, (j·c, in,cending a man or woman, for it anfwerech to gore Jl; :i..Aqui·· the Hebrew word 1/ch, under which the woman alia was corn· nas in lowm. prehended. That cnduret!?J ~~ ~pJyJe-~, that is, that patiently and confi:ant– ly beareth; a wicl<td man fuffL·reth , bur hedoch not endure , they {ujfer bm unWillingly, with murmuring and blafphemy; but che godly man endureeh, that is, beareth the affiichon wi1h ·patience and conft~tncie; without murmuring, fainting, or blaiphemmg : endunn_u- is taken in a good fence, as Heb. 12. 7· If ye endftre chaflu,ttiJ', Go.ddea leth with you as jons; God is nor p.::rcdvd to deal as 6 a facher, bur when the affliCtion is patiently born, which the Apofl:k calh:th r:n lui'ing there• . Tempra tionJ Affiicrion is fo called as before, in its felf 'cisapu– ~i(bmcnt of fin, but to the godly but aTrya/1 ; as death, the King *(Jf' terrors; or- highdt of,a$ifl:ions, is in it felf the Wages of fin; . b(lt eo them, thegate of tternall !tfe. For. "whenhe u tryt'd J ,J'OK.Jp.®- J.tev6,v.9t.Je-, The word is often . · amOac~
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