Chap. 36. an etpoftion upon the Bocce of 3o B. Verf. i I. 249 Cold, and Bracelets ; he can tranflate our dayes of trouble, and our years ofpain, into dayes of profperity, and years of plea;úrre ; it was fo with fob in the .f ue,and he was the man that Elite, here intended. fa was long bound in fetters, and holden in the cords of affli&ion, yet as Elihu told him he fhouid,fohe didafterward, fpend his dayes inprofperity,and his years in pleafure ; the Lord doubled his Cattel to him, his friends fil'd his Coffers, and his, Cabinets, Everymangave hint apace ofmoney, a;:d every one an Ear-ring of gold ; his childrenallo were the fame for number, his daughters the faireil in the Land ; himfelf alto lived in the fulnefsof this outward Profperity, till he was full of dayes,and he fed upon the,delicious fruitsof this Pronuile all his after -dayes. Manaffeh havingrun a courfe of unparallel'd wickednefs, nias at IA takenby the Captains of the hell of the King ofAffyria, among the Thorns, and they boundhim with fetters, and carryed him to Babylon ( 2 Chron. 3 3., a t .) yet when in his aflliddion he bzm fought the Lord his God; and humbled himfelf greatly before the God of his Fathers, he was entreated of him, and brought again to J'erufalem, where he fpent his dayes in profperity, and his years inpleafure. Ifwe turn ro the Lord in aßlie; ion, the Lord is ready to turn'away cur afflió.Iion, or (as the Church pray- ed in the half turn of her affliction; Pfal. i 26.4.) to turn our cap- tivity, as the firearm in the South ; that is, to make both a moll admirable and a moil comfortable turn of our condition. Streams in the hot SouthernCountries are rare ; the Rain of thole Lands ufually is duff. Streams in the South are allo very welcome : How glad are they of a cooling Showre from a Cloud, who daily feel, and are fainted with the fco'ching Beams of theSun 1 Such a turn fhall they have ( faith Elihu) who being h,-dc!en in the cords of afilidtion, to n from iniquity, obey and ferve the Lo d Thirdly, From the matter of the Píorlife, Note ; A comfortable paffage through this life, is a very ,great me, e,, as well as thehope ofhappinefsfor ever in the other life. 'Tis profperiry and pleafure in this vvo:ld, though nórme.er worldly profperity and pleafure, which is here p o nifed ; and we are not to flight any thing that comes `bv promife, yea, we Ihould highly efleem thole things, which, confldered in them- K k felves,
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