Chap. 3 3. An Expoftion upon the fool of Jos. Verf. T9. 335 greatly difpleafed, andmyfelfe forely chaftned at once. He depre- cares_.the tame againe, and how grievous the effects of fuchdif- penfations are, he fheweth ( Pfd: 38. r.) Rebuke me not in thy wrath. (Pfal: 39.11.) When thou with rebukes dolt correct man for iniquity ; ( He means it not only of word-rebukes, but of hand-rebukes alto, when thou with fuch doubled rebukes dolt chat-ten man for iniquity) What then ? The effes of it follow, even the Raining of the glory of all flefh ; Thou makeft his beauty to confume away likea moth. And fo fond interpret that (Pfal: Io5. 15.) Hereproved Kings for theirfakes ?. (fpeaking of his owne people) the Lord did not only fpeak to thole Kings, but made them .feel his hand, for his peoples fake. A`imelech felt his hand for Abrahams fake. And fo did Pharoah that hard-hear- tedKing in a whole decade of plagues for !fuelsfake, whom he had oppreffed and would not let goe. We render- the word in this,fecond fettle,for a rebuke by blowes or bycorreaion, which yet hash a language in itond (peaks with a loud voyce to man. Irt is ch4tened with paine upon his bed. Paine is both the concomitant , and effect of ficknefs. The word noteth, Firfl, thepaine of the body, caufed either by the' violence of inwarddiaernpers, or from the outwardRroake ofa »c dot;ri; wound ( Gen: 34.) When the fons of Jacob had prevailed with corpora vet the Shechemites to receive Circumcifion, It came to paffe on the animo. thirdday, when theywere fore, or pained with the -wound of k, Simeonand Levi cameupon them( Gen: 34. 25. )° Secondly, the word fignifieth as bodyly paine caufed anyway, fo paine of the mind, which is griefe or forrow( Pfal: 69. z9.) I one pore and farrowfall.Sorrow isalrvayes the effect of paine,either outwardor inward, either ofthe flefh or fpirit; yet the wounds of the fpirit caufe the greate1paine ; for ofthat So/ mom faith, ( Pro: a 8. 14.) Who can !scare it? The fame Solemon (Pro: 14: 13, ) fpeaking of a wicked man inhis highel jollity, faith, Inlaughter the heart is farrowfull. His confcience aketh'( if hehave anawakened con- fcience ) evenwhile he laugheth; and furely while the heart is forrowfull and pained,laughter yeeldeth little pleafure.We may take paine in this text in bothfenfes, but fpecially in the former. The lick rnanis oftenpained in Mind, but alwayes in his. body. lls-
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