Chap, r. AnExpofation upon the BookofJ O B. Verf. 8. 267 goodlinefs thereofis as theflower ofthefield;tbegrafs withereth, and the flowerfadeth,lfa. 4.0. 6. And here'likewifenote this,you that enjoy healthof bocly,whofe f'rengt-h yct continues, and your lelvesarefree.fjrom the bonds of any bodily infirmity : while you hearof one frnitten with a di- feafe from the crown of the head to the foie of the feet, confider what a mercy you have, who have no pain from the crown of thehead to thefoleof the feet ; who have not an akingjoynt,nor pain fo much as in a finger. It is like that many; of you can fay, you have this blefting, you do not know what pain in any'buc member Means ; look upon a man , that knew nothing but pain, upon a man rhat had not one member free;ándprize your bleifhng. Such likewife whohave pain and infirmities, moue or two, or more partsofthe body, may :fee in this fpedacle ,cáufe to ,bic s God; tha(they have any part free. To havebut o1}e,or but a few fores, ismercy, fparing mercy.,- when we behold another nothing buta fore. Indeed when onemember fùf ers(whetherin the body natural-or miflical) all the members fuller with it. But compaf- fion is not fo heavya burcen,aspaf'on is. that ás. the found mem- bers fit tathiie inforrow with thofe t. are Çmitten,fb they that are fiiiit ten fyn,pa.rhiie in joy with t'ho{é that are found. The eafe of onepartmitigates the dfeafeofanother,and it is anabatement ofour troublesTb fee thofe whom we love- in peace. Two are better-then one (faith,Solomon) for ifone fall, the other may help him up i-but if bothfall, who fhall help ? And if every- member fuller, there is paffion in all, but companion in none ; much fiefs fupport or help. Thirdly obferve, fob in this condition was left ofall. Do not think it firange ifyou be brought into fuchiiraights, as tobe left alone, when you have moll need of afíifiance. job was a man friendlefs, Phyltianlefs, wifelefs, fervantles, all forfook him. It is the coinforfpf the people ofGod, that they know how to be alone, and yet cannever be alone:though they be left : of all vifi- ble friends, yet they have an invifiable friend' who will v fit them, flay with them by day,and watch with them bynight, for he bath faid, /mil/never leave thee,nor forfake thee. In the Greek there'are two negatives to affirm this,, that God will not leave his, Neb. 14. 5.-And he that bath him alone, loath infinitely.more then all the world in one. When friends and Phyfitians will not come near, when wife and children take their leave or flared a far off, when M m z fèrvants
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