à'r o .Cl0. ç. An Expofition upm the Book of J OB. Vcrf. 17. fence and reafon cannot agree about this cotrjunCtion: they know not how happinefs and correction lhould meet,and kifsthe fame perfon : Therefore raife up attention ( fa0 Etiphaz. ) to con- flier this wonder. wbsn the e/Ingell of the Lord appeared unto Mofas in aflume of fire out of the midfi ofa bufh, he looked and 6e hold the both burned with fi,e,and the bull, wat not confutneel. /1ndMo(es Paid,! will now turns afide, and fee this great fight, 24, by the bulb is not burnt, Exod.3.z, 3.Stich a great fight this text; fhevwes us; A bull, burring and not confirming, yea a bill, bur- 'vin ,,,and yet flor;rifnina, a bufh on fire, and yet a fruit-bearing bufh,a bufhblooming and bleffoming with the pleafanteft and lweetefi fruit onearth, or rather with the fruit of heaven, fruit upon which we (hall feed for ever in heaven, Fruir,the rafts of which,make a heaven here on carth,Happinefs.bleil then,is this firange fight'prefented to us, with A Behold. Happy is the man Whom GodcorreE11etb,&c. Happinefs is the enjoyment of good commenfurate to all our defires. That's perfe& happinefs. Happinefs is the fumme of all our de- hres,and theaime ofall our endeavours: And when we_.lraveat- tained perfect happnefs, We flail beat a full'point, both of ,our defires and endeavours. But though all men have happinefs in their eye (to be happy is their end,and this happinefs isbut cane)Yet the wayes, which ,men have chalkt out,as leading to happinefs,havc been noton- ,ly-various,but almofi infinite.Som of the learned have reckoned up two or three Centuries, or hund reds of opinions, concerning this one point. And it is well obferved,that men varied thus in o- pinion about happincfs,bccáufe they thought the enjoyment of t at,where in any of themwasdefecive, would make theín hap- py.He that was poore,faid, I Ihould be happy, if I had riches ; aicrd thence grew his opinion, that happinefs confïf'ted it riches the lick man faid,I ihouldbe happy if I had my health & theme g+!ew his opinion,jthát happinefs eonfificd in health ° Another was obfcure,mean and low,© (laid he) bow happy were!, if Iwirs honoarable,and thence grew a third opinion,that happinefs`con- ti1 ed in i'sonour;Thtts they varied according to their particular Aisceffides. and interefis. But awongfi ail áhgf Q irior. ll,t , 'we -mwet nor with,arnyone,who pücht upon this in'theTeS4,Thisis a Farad to them all,A natural! man cannòC place happinefs in correction
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