Chap. 2. 4nExpofition upon the Bookof JO B. Verf. i 3 319 thebu finefs they fell upon afterward) either toconvince himor re- provehim. The reafon of this fourthceremonial ad ofmourning, their f - lence, is added in the lall words of the Chapter, For they. J nv that hisgrief was,verygreat. The word here ufed for grief,though it had been alone without X8D any Epethite to heighten the fence, notes a very intenfìve, a deep and great forrow : And it is put fometimcs for grief and forrow arifing from the pain of the body ; and fometimes for grief and forrow of mind : Now here ',conceive it may carry both Cenfes ; they fasi that the grief and pain of his body was very great, his body was in a woful plight;and they law that his fpirit was much perplext too, his mind was troubled. But if this word aldne figni- fies asir were all degrees,and all kinds offorrow,then confider both the varietyofkind, and intention ofdegrees,colled ed-in,jobs for- rows, which a word fo comprehenfive is not fufficient to-exprefs the aid oftwo other words is called in to help out our conception of his forrows : Theyfart, his grief, they' faw his griefwas great ; 1ftiJ t1`1a yet you have not all,- They fan, his 'grief was very great , exceed - ing great ; this aggravates his grief, and winds up his forrow to the highefi ; as ifnow the afili Lion were grown to a full fiature God threatens Babylon, Ifa. 47. 9. 7hefe two things Atli come upon thee in a moment, in one day; the lofs ofChildren and Widow- hood, thefe thingsfcall come upon thee in'their perfalion. Some- -times imperfect judgments are upon a people or a perfon ; they are, as it were Infant Judgments, Judgments beginning; anon they grow toagreater height, and anón they come to a perfect flature, to be mighty ones, giantly Judgments : at that time God had evenbrought,jobsaffliction to its perfedion,and his griefwas pro- portionable, verygreat : For this reafon his friends kept fríence ; this reafon bath an influence on all the a1s'of their forrow, but efpecially upon this, their keeping filence For theyfaze bis grief was very great. From thefe ceremonial acts of forrow, I have obferved divers things heretofore : Now take one thingin general ,'That great fufferings call us to and warrant us in fòlemn fat urnings., jobs Friends do not only mourn , but they mourn as it Were in !late ; There is a kind of magnificence in mourning , a"pomp mourning ; I approve not a proud pomp, but an humblepomp ; they mourn you fee with àll the formalities of Mourning: So it becometh
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