3I z Chap. ç. An Expotitian urn the Bok of J o B. Verf. 17. degrees ; h is the fame !late in a higher 'lave : The fame book in a more carrell edition and fairer hater. Tilde differ as a child from a man,or as the morning light,from the light at high noon; So then,this word includes all kinds and degrees of happines:yet, here it is properly tobe underfl:ood of the happinefs of this life, which only is confiftent with correction; There are no rods in Rea. ven,and wefha!l be paff children, before we come thither. 8itnples &age- Thirdly,we may anfwer plainly,that the word in the Hebrew mina refponfia . ell quad nomen is onely Pfarrall or Dual, being never read in the fingtilarnumber: fpfunt quo Be- As in theLatine we have many the like wc.rds. bra. beatitude. It is furtherobferväble concerning the word,that it is alwayes new natant,efl applied unto man, whereas the word (Barac) beefed, is applied utuhaw.,nttam, both .to God and man. Thi, happinefs is a (eciall and ut latittm oper l? p peculiar divitiae. happinefs of man : The Lord being infinitely abeve, both obeying Ames in Pf. 3. and fa f fering. Happy is the Man. Enofh, the Hebrewword for Max ( of whom happinefs an- der corre&ion is predicated ) is very futable to the bufinefs of còrre&}ion. Enofh fignifies a fickly,weake, miferable man : We might render the full fence of the word thus, Nappy it that mile- rabic man, wham God carrells. That is, looke upon a man ,accor- ding to theordinary account of theworld,and calculation of rea- fon,he is a miferable man, a weake,fickly man ; yet happy is this weake,fickly, miferable man in the account of God,and by the calculation of faith. Grace maker that good fence, which is a con- tradillion, both in nature and in reafon, A miferable man,and a hap- py man,one and the fame. In Plat, t. the word lfb is ufed, Bleffed is the man, that is, B'ef- fed is that excellent man, that holy man, that (/tong man, walkng anddelighting in the Law ofthe Lord. Tea Hefei with the fame blef- fednefe is that miferable man ( ftnatting under the rod of the Lord )whomGod correlle:b, And yet bleflednefs is j )yn'd with all the words,by which man isexprefed. It is joyned with Adam, Pfal 32. t. Bieffed it the man whofe iniquity is forgiven, Adam is the generali word for Man,and is therefore moil fitly j )yn'd with blefTednefs in pardon of fin, becaufe all men are finners,and no man can be bleffed,ex- cept he bepardoned. Blefednefs is joyned alto with Geber, a /bong, powerful/ and mighty man, Pfal.91. i z. Bbfred is the man
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