328 Chap. 3. An Expofition upon the Book of j OB. Verf ig that vilanous arc of Shimei, 2 Sam. 16. 15. Who cameforth and curfed David frill CIS he came. That acs was a.like oppofite both to the rule and word of the fifthCommandment, which faith,fionour thy Father, &c. taking in the civil Father as weil as theNatural: Slümei's curfìng David, lightl y efteetned David, he did not look . upon him, in or according to the weightineís and honour'ofhis Kingly perfon, or of his Kingly Office, a King id a weighty perfon, a Crown is'a weighty thing; Shimei defpifed and fo curfèd both. Sometimes theword is translated direly to defpife : I will give you two Texts for that, Gen. 16. 1.. Vhen Hagar Pryfhe had con- ceived, ber 1Y2iffref} was defpifed in her eyes , (it is the fame _ word with that ufed hereforcurfìng)themeaning is,fhe did light- ly efteem her Mif refs; Thus the thought,now [hail I have the ho- nour of railing Abrahams Family; now I am at leaff as good a wo- man as my Mittrefs thus the defpifed Sarah. Again, i Sam. 2. 30. where the Lord faith concerning Eli's Sons, Them that honour 'me Iwill honour, .ánd they that defpife me, fhall be lightly'effeemed I will make littleaccount of them that make little accountof me ; and woe be to thofe (though all the World honour them) whomGod defpifeth : That man lofes more then honour, whom God loth not honour : And they who deny God his honour, deny hilt all good, and offer him all evil ; fuch a defpifing ofGod, is a cutting of God. Further, To curie (if we confider it in the nature of the thing, and not firitly in the literal fenfe of the word) is to with evil to a thing or perfon ; This alfo is the meaning of the curie in this place ; for when Job explains this curie in the partsof it, he Both (as it were) with wonderful art and skill, gather together what- : foevcr may be thought the evil ofa day, or theevil ofa night, and calls it up, to feize upon them. A curfè,or to curfe,vertually con- tains in it all evil ; As aWelling, or to biefs , contains in it ver- tually all good. Every mercy we enjoy , is a blefling fpecifica- ted ; And fo an evil that falls upon man , (as Sword, Famine, Peililence, &c.) is a curfe fpecificated ; Howfoever poflibly thofe hings,which are in their nature evil, and in their matter a curie, may be qualified (in reference untoTome perfon) into a bleffing. But take a dirge properly, and it containeth all evil, and only evil in it. Therefore as when God had given the world an ef,'a being, that he might give it, a bene effe,a well being, he adds to the work of Creation, theword of benediiion, AndGod bleffedthem, and fid
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