Ciiap. 5. An Expofttion upon the Book of J O B. Veri. !7. 31I correElion,No Philofopher or pure Moralifi ever fait, happy is the man,thar is forcihappy is the man that is fick;happy is the man that isdifgraced s or happy is the man that is in prtfon;Tiiefe are riddles,fuch as nature is not able to expound or m3.ke out,the Philofopher would as food place light in darkuefs,. the Sun in a cloud, beate in coldnefs,the element of fire in the water, as blcf- fednefs in fufferings. Therefore no marvel if Eltphaz, ufh:r it in, with a Behold, l3ebold bappy is the man , whom God cor rated). . The word,Happy, is of the Phtral number, or rather of the Dual in the Hebrew. Some trartflate it in the AbfiraET, B:bold b3eatitudiner thebieffedneffe of that man whom God correïl; : But it is ful- conJtatindecli- ly reudred by the AdjeUeve as we, Behold happy is the nabtle effh, formam hthera man, &c, nan tam plum There is much contention among the Grammarians about the lis quay; (ha! word, whether it be abfiraF.b or concrete, a Noon, or antAdverb : lir. But I will notAay on + hofe,only confider a little what acccu rt isIgiven,why the word is ufed plurally or dually. Pirft, it is to increafe the fignification, and heighten the Ionic as notingthe confluenceof many good things in happinefs.Hap- Beati,beatituc® pinefrit not a finite good ; happinefs confias in the concurrence or in multis boni. meting together of many good things: God,who is infinitely tnúbur conft happy,infinttely bleffed in himfelf, and an infinite blefling, all flit Kab. D. bfcffing to his people, is not a tingle good,ur a particular good, but he is all good both to himfelf, a,,d to his people. A godly man is happy in the largeft fence, in all fences; bec?ufe his,is not this or that particular good, but all good .And he is not happy only this or that particular rime, but all times. He is as hap- py,when he is fuffering under the hand of Godas when he is fer vtng God,as happy in his paffive as in his aEive obedience. And therefore the fame word exprefles his condicion,both in che.one, and in the other. Secondly, becaufe there is a two fold happinefs Firfl, the happinefs of this life. And feondly, the happinefs of the nex,. Temporal happioefs,and eternal happinefs ;Corporal happinefs and fpiritual happiïiefs. To note a complication of all thefe, the word may be given in a dual or plural number. He that is thus correfked,loofes not temporal happinefs,aocl he gaines in Ipiri.n- al, and toward eternal happinefs. The`prefent andfuture happi- ties of the Saiuts,the happinefs of grace and of glory,differ but in degrees,
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