Vs R s.II. An Expojition, 'With Notes CHAP.I. The Notes· are thefc : Ohflrvat. 1 • 1. From the continuance of the fimilitude, That the vanity tJf flowers fhould hint tho~ghts to H4 ahout the vanity of' our own com· forts. We delight in pillures and emblems, for then the Soul, by the help of fancy and imagination, harh adouble viewof the ob· ject in the fimilitude, which is, as it were, apirture of it, and then the thing it felf; this was Gods ancient way to teach his peo- - ple by Types:- fiill he teacheth us byJimilitudn, taken from com– mon and ordinary objects, that when·we are cafi upon them,jpiri· tual thotttghts may be awakened; · and fo every ordinary objeEl is, as it w~re, hall9wedandconfecrated to an'heavenly purpofe. Well then, Let this be your field or garden meditation, when you fee them decked with -,a great deal of bravery, ·remember all this is gone in an infiant; when the burning heate arifeth, in the text ~cis (let me open that by the way) ""'€- a-~~ x.d.Ja-r.m, the Suo with aburning wind, fo in the Original; ·for x.d.utrtlJI', the word ufed here, is ufually put for a.fcortching wind; ·which in the hot And EafternCountries was wont to a~~~!lJpany the _rifing of the. Sun, as {onah4• 8. It came to pa{s when the· Sun did hegin to lt• · rife, God preparda vehement Ett{f wind; and t~ercfore do we read of the drying Eap wind, E :l:J'e~ I j. r o. and in many places of Hofea, it was an hot, piercing wind that blaf.l:ed all things, and · was the ufual figure ofGods judgments ; .and fo the Pfalmifi faith, Thewindpaf{ethoverit, anditis goneJ Pfol. ro3. 16. But this by the way,becaufe I omitted it in the Expofition ; When I fay yoa walk in agarden, orfidd, (as Ifoac did to meditate, Gen. 24. 63.) . think thus with your {elves, Here is a goodly lhew and paintry, but alafs rhefe things are but for a feafon, they wquld fade away of their own accord,but the breath of the Eaft wind will foon dry them up: fo areall worldly comforts like flowers in the Spring, good in their {eft{on, but very vanijhing and perijhing. 0/JflrvAt. 'J, 2· That ou~Comforfulre perifhing in themfelves, but ef{JJci• ~tl!fwhen the hand of providence is ftretched out 11gain.ft them : Tfie flower fadeth ofit fe1f, _but chiefly when 'cis fcottched by the glowing, burning Eaft Wind. Our hearts lhould be loofe at all times from outward· things, but efpecially in times of publick.. · defolation ; ~tis a fin agllinft providence to affect great things: when God is over-turningall, then there is a burning heat upor; the flowers; and God is gQne for~h toblaft worldly glory, 1erem. . 44~4,)o
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