314 Chap. 39. an Expo fitionupon the Book of o B. Vert. 2. joy, in fpiritual meditation and converfation, to which we refort by the wings of faith in, and love unto God. upon thefe highpla- ces thou wilt make me to walk. As if the Prophet had faid, l (hall go lightly and Iweetly on in my journey to heaven, having my foul supplied and fuppled (as it were) with the oyl of fpiritual joy and gladness. As it is Paid of facob (Gen. 29. a.) after that he had that bleffedvifion at Bethcl,in the clofe of the 28th Chap- ter) Hewext on his journey ; or (as we put in the margin) He lift up his feet ; his feet were like Hinds feet, lithe and nimble for his journey, going on in faith towards God, and in the light of his countenance. Fifthly, Ir is obfervedby Naturaliíls,that Hinds are verycha- ritable and helpful one to another; and they give that fpecial in- fiance, when fwimming over any River or deep water, the fe- cond is fupported by the firfl, and the third by the fecond, and fo to,the lafl they help one another over ; which Both excellently fhadow the ufefulnefs that (hould be among Chriftians,and their mutual heipfulnefs; . they fhould be as Harts and Hinds always in this refpeta, and then moil when they come into the Rivets and deepwaters of forrow and trouble, then they should fupport and bear up each one his brother. The Apoflles word is (Gal. 6.2.) Bear one anothers burdens, and fo fulfil the Law of Chris?. Tne burdens which he there intends, are not only the in- firmities which are in us, but the affi6ions and troubles which pofiibly we may at any time be in. And again (Phil. Z. 4.) Let not every man mind his own things, but let him mind the things whichare anothers ; that is, let him be helpful to others in out- ward things, muchmore let him be helpful to others in fpiritual things Thus the Scripture fpeaks, both of Jefus Chrift, and of thole that are his, under the fimilitude of the Hind. From both parts of the verse, in that the Lord puts theque- Ilion here to rob, Knowefi thou the timewhen the wilde Goats of the rocks bring forth ? or canft thou markthe timewhen the Hinds do calve ? Note, Firfl ; The Lord himself takes special care of she wildeft creatures, evenof theft which aremoll remote from thehelp and care of tan, The
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