42. Chap. . An Expofztion upon the Book of J oB. Verf.6. 8 3 t Secondly, To comfort or to take comfort ; thus it is rendered (Gen. 24. 67.) Ifaac was comforted concerning the death of his another ( 2 Sam. 13. 39. }Davidwas comforted concerning Amnon. (Pial. 77.2.) In the day of my trouble I fought the Lords any fore ran in the night and ceafed not ; my foul refufed to becomforted. It may TeemGrange, that the fame word which lignifies forrow and repentance,fhould figniiie alto comfort and to be comforted : but forrow and comfort meet in true repentance ; godly forrow cloth not hindcr,much lets quite exclude,and flint out joy in God.Re- pentance is ufhered in by godly forrow, and grief of heart for fin, and it concludes with comfort and joy of heart in God who pardonech (inners ; and therefore the fame word which lignifies to repent, may well liignifie both to grieve and to take comfort. Repentance is a change from abad Bate to a good, and a turning from the wora of evils, fn, to the chiefefi good, God himfilf ; and therefore mufi needs be followed, if not accompanied with much fweetnefsand comfort. AGreek tranflator renders it ex- 4 era pexaa- pretsly fo in this place, wherefore I abhor my fief, and take cons- $10mX14 fort in daft and ajhes ; and doubtlefs, while job was repenting in i> :Etcon: floods offorrow, his comforts came flowing in. There isa laugh - folationemec-' ter, in the midi of which the heart is forrowful, and the end of ` cinéralvere thatmirth is heavinefs (faith Solom, Prov. 14. 3.) and there is a forrow ( that's a blefTed forrow) in the midaof which the heart laughs) and the end ofwhich heavinefs is mirth. To repent (in the general natureof it) is to change both the mind and way, and fo take up newprinciples and new practices. A man that truly repenceth, isnot the fame man he was befòre he repent- ed ; he can fay, Iam not I. And as in true repentance there is a change from a bad to a goodmind, and from a perverfe, to aright and righteous way ; fo in repentance, there is a change from* troubled to a quiet mind, and from a painful ma pleafant and de- lightful way. So then, there is a two-fold change in repentance; Pita, A change of the mind from fin. Secondly, Achange in the mind from forrów. Many are the griefs and gripes, the trou- blesand perplexities, with which thedconfcience of an.awrakened finger is followeth, till he bath unburdenedhimfelf by confefiion and repentance; when once he hath truly done fo, howgreat is his peace! & how fweec are his confolations!And cherefore,whenrhe Apofle faith (2 Cor.7, I o.)c5odly forrow worketh repentance to 1'41- 'ration
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