436 Chap. 33. An Expefition upon the Book, of J ö B. Verf.26 the kirdnefs of thy youth,the love, ofthy efpsufalls, when thoetwentef after me in a land that was not fonone ; that is,when thoudidfl truff, me for thy daylybread. Secondly, It was called thepeen-bread,, to reffile the fpeciallprefence of God with them , and that his, eye was alwayes upon them, ready todo them good upon all oc capons. This was the high priviledge of the Jewes then,they had the bread effaces ; and this is the joy of the peopleof God now, what ever good they have, it is the face ofGod to them theirbread is the bread offaces, and their wine is the wine offa- ces, e c.that is, they are a fignification of the favour and love of God to them, or they loek upon the love and favour ofGod ma nifelled in thole things, much more then upon the things them- felves. Now if it be fogreat a mercy to have force mantfeftarion of the face or favour ofGod, or that we are alwayes in the fight and view ofGod ; What will it be to us when we fhall>alwayes abide in the,pretence of God, and fee his-facewith joy ? Laffly , Note. P/1juftt feedperfon hath confidente to look, up to and think of God; Hedath it withjoy; and that's the fruit of a well- grounded confidence. where the Spirit of the Lord is ( faith the Apoffle, 2 Cor: 3, 77.) there is liberty, a liberty of addreffe and approach to God, a liberty alfo of fpeech and prayer toGod. True godlinels hath touch well regulated boldnefs with God; and as a Godly man ought with reverence,fo hecan with a wel- grounded confidence lookeGod in-the face. For he will renderunto manhis rightco fnefs, This latter part of the verfe giveth an account of the groundof that joy which the lick man found in peeing the face of God. Hepallfee hisface withjoy ( faith 8/40) for he (that is, God) pall render untoman his righteoufnef . doll aradico Hepall°render ; The Hebrew is, he willmake to reeurne; The word fsgnifieth, Firft, to retume to a.place fromwhence we have departed ( Gen: a 8. r o. ) Secondly, to returnor turn from that difpleafure which wasonce conceived. When theLard, is, as it were, in a hot purfuit of linnets, he returns or turns from his an- ger, The Prophet fpeakes in the negative (Ifa: 5, 2 s.) For all this
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