95o Chap.4' . an Expofttionupon the Book,of J o v. Verf: ró, warded. The Lord to not unrighteous to forget your work and /a- boar of love (Heb. 6. i a.) The Lord flwuld be unrighteous to forget our labour of ,love; not becaufe any labour of ours can en- debt him to reward '.us, bur, becaufe he bath freely promifed to reward us. Secondly, The Lord isa bountiful rewarder of us for whit we fuller: And that, Firf+, When we fuffcr .under his own hand. Secondly, When for his fake we fuller peaceably and patiently under the hand of men. fob was a great fufferer both ways; he fuffered greatly _under the affli Ling hand of God, and he fuffer- ed greatly .under -the violent hands and reproachful tongues of men,andthe Lord was to him a bountiful rewarder,with refpea to both :For he did not only heal hiswounded Bate, and make him up as well as he wasbefore,according to that in (7erem.30. 17.) 7tll refore"bealtbunto thee, and Iwill Beal tby wounds ; but he did it double, infomuch, that he, who in the days of his former profperity, was only the greatefl of all the men of the Eaft, be- came in the days of his latter profperity, greater than be had been himfelf. TheLord bathplentiful rewards for the godly, and fo "he bath (thoughof another kind) for the wicked. He (faith Da- vid) plentifully rewardetb the proud doer (Pfa . 31.23,) There is a reward of wrath, aswell as a reward of favour. Wrath is the reward of proudmen: Thus the Lord will plentifully reward proud Babilon, at one time or other, by fosse hand or other (Revel, 1$. -6.) Renard bar, even as site rewarded you, and double ante ber double according to bar works : In.tbe cup wbieb¡fhe bath filled fill toher double. Babilon (hall at last lofe double blood, for the blood that she bath drawn, yea (as the Text faith) double, double, that is four timesas much ;and who knows howmuch that double untober double means ? For 'cis faid (var. 7.) Hewmatb ¡he hob glorifiedher felf, and lived deliciously, fo much torment and forrow give ber. Nowas no man can tell nor imagine, how much the bath glorified her feif, nor how deliciously (he bath lived ; fono man can tell hots much torment and forrow fhe {hail have ! Yea, we read not only of a double, andquadruble, but of a feven-fold reward of wrath for evil men (Pfal.79. 12.) Jeender unto our neighbours even-fold into their kolas. And tardy that Scripture means bad neighbours. Now as the Lord cloth
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