204 Chap. 5. AnExpoftion upon the Book of .1 O B. Verfc, harveft that hungry one did eat up, but, it was not beeaufe he deli- red yobs harvejt,bùt becaufe he gaped for jobHimfe.lf,He thought ifGod would but give him leave to rob3obofhis riches,jobwould quickly let his foul lapfinto his hands. A foul isthe dainty mor- fclf which That hungryfpirit waits for. The molt delicate things in the world are meat too gref.fs for a fpirit, though an uncleane one. Other, by the htcngry, ane, underfland the Heir of this rich worldling ; His heir whomhe had kept low, and bare and Ilion, as long as he lived now, when he is dead and gone,comes hungry to the efiate,andquickly confumes it ; he eats itout, drinks it up and lavifheth it away. It is often feen,that the Heirs ofgreat,rieh men come very hungry to their inheritances, and as quickly fwal- low them down. They have been kept fo fhort, that likeemp- tyand (harp let fiomacks they wafte all, when they come where they may have their fill, That eftate which is got by the oppreffor, andkept by the bafe covetoufnefs of parents, is u)isally fpent out in riot andluxury. Ahungry heir devours the harveji. Thirdly, The hungry, maybe taken for thofe poor opprefl'cd ones, whofe eftates thofe Nimrod: of the world had un jufilyand cruelly ravifhtfrom them.. They whomwicked men make hun- gry and lean by their exa&ions and cruel dealings, come at fall (though unbidden and unwelcom°guelts) to eat the bread from their Tables: And thefe poor Hungryonesare conceived by fome to be WWifdornes children, the people of God, whom thole wicked fools had ftript of their eftates, and would have eaten them too eßÑ io:;Arms like bread, Pfalm 14. So the Septuagint renders it, The jug- or the godly(hall eat up or devour the harvejt of this rich worldling. Put both theCe- together, and this may be the fenfe, The hungryeateth up his harvejt, that is, the godly poor, whom this man had unjuft ly oppreft, and even put to ttarving, God, by his<jufi. judgment- ment (hall fend in, to take free Qyarter, to eat their fill his harvefi, and never recon with their hoft._' From that fenfe takethis note, That Goddot!) fometimer give the rWoes of wicked men to poor godly men, whom they have oppreft. lob himfelf, Chap. 27. verf. 16. gives u-s this truth in exprefs termes, where fpeakin& of a wicked man, he faith, Though he beapupfilveras the dujibandprepare rayment as the clay,he may pre- pare it(let him prepare it, let-him: fcrape jr together as fait as he (can,
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