588 Chap. 34. An Expefition upon the Bak of J e B. Veda+, that caution ( Pfal: 62. 10. ) Ifriches encreafejet not your heart upon them ; we naturally love riches , and therefore as naturally fpend many thoughts, both how to get and how to keepe them. Ifa man have riches, or an encreafe of riches , it is not unlawful! for him to thinke of them, ( yet we fhould be as fparingof our thoughts that way as canbe , our thoughts and the bent of our foules should alwayes be uponGod) but that which the Pfalmift forbids is the fetiingofour hearts ; As if he had fayd,Let not your thoughtsflay or dwell there.Riches are themfelves tranfient things, therefore they shouldhave but ourtranfient thoughts.Set not your hearts upon them, forthey may quickly be unfetled. Samuel be- fpaae Saul in the fame languageabout a worldly concernment, when . he went out to feek his fathers Aflies ( Sam: g. 20. ) Set.not,thy mindon them, 'Tis like Saul was over burdened with this thought, What's become of, or what {hall I doe for my fa- thers Afles ? Benot follicitous about them, faith Samuel, greater things are towards thee. Abigail ufeth the fame forme of fpeak- ing to Davidconcerning Naball (i Sam: 25. i3.) Let not my Lord regard this man ofBelial, lay not CO heart what Nahal hath fayd or done. Thus lonadab took offDavids feare,that inone day he had been deprived ofall his Sons :(2Sam: i 3. 3 3. ) Now therefore let not my Lord the King tak.ç the thing to heart, to think that all the Kings fens .aredead, for Amnon only is dead. We are as apt to fet our heart upon our idles , as upon our enjoyments. And to thew how little Pharoah regardedthe heavy hand of God upon him, it is fayd ( after Mofes had turned all the waters that were in the river to blood, Exact: 7. -2 3. ) And Pharoah turned and went into his houfe,neitber did lethis heart to this alfo ; Thatis, 9lppenero cáv he flighted what God had done. Let God fpeak, and ftrike once all, vest, de_ and againe, yea a third time, yet hard-heartedmen doe not lay it arum, conflr- to heart, nor fet their heart upon it. Thus here in the Afl rma- fnere, q. d, five it is faydof God, Ifhefet his heart upon man ; that is, if he ei funs ens- doe but intend and mind this matter, he can quicklybring it a- euHiiimorerit.bout, eventhe lierifhing of all Beth. Vats®lá ; ifhe fet his heart upon man, Yafercon- , The text is rendered alfo , Ifhe let his heart againfl man: ara. séponeret TheHebrew particlefignifieth notonly upon,but againfl(Amos7. ¿opera eum cor 16. )- Prophefe not againfl Ifrael, &c. And the generaall fence of $w. i.e.fitbithat reading may given two wayes. lrisfl3.
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