588 Chap. 5. in leven: Sword and famine (hall not hart thee, peaceand plenty ¡hall dwell within thy walls, and lodge in every chamber : Yet (faith he)I will tell thee of a bleffìng,beyond all there, thou fb.elt notfin : It is more mercy to be delivered from one fin, than from fword and famine ; grace is better than peace,and holinefs than abundance ; richesand honour, and health,axe all obfcured in this one bluffing, A holy, agracious, an humble heart. There is more evil in one lin,than in any or all troubles ; there - fore, there mutt needs be a greater bluffing in being kept from fin, than in prote&ion.from any or all troubles. Sin is the greate(t evil, therefore to be kept from fin, is one of the greatefl goods. Chri(t took upon him all forts of outward evils, he becamepoor for our fakes, he had not fo much as an houfe to lye in : he came in the formofa fervant for our fakes, and he was a manóf forrows, He was acquainted with grief all his life, at laft, with death and a grave ; Yet,he would not admit of the leaft fin : He was content to bear all our iìns,bút he abhorred the thought ofaóingone.Not to fin,is the next priviledge to God, and the utmoff priviledge ofmatzo. When in a full fenfe, man {hall not fin, man will bearrived at ful- nefs ofjoy ; and as we daily empty of fin, fo we proportionably, fill with joy.. Verf. 25. Thou(halt know, alto that thyfeed(hall begreat, and thy, off-fpring as the graft of the earth; From the prefentblelfings upon the family,he defcends to thole which concern pofterity ; as ifhe had. Paid, thy comforts (hall not be confined to thy felt, neither (hall they be (hut up within the li- mits of one generation ; Mercies flrall be tranfmitted to thy chil- dren, thy heirs (hall inherit ble(lings. Thy feed fhall be great. The word Great, fgnilies both multi- tuck and magnitude Thou (halt havea great feed, that is, a nu- merous - feeda multitude of children ; and thou (halt have a great feed, that is, honourable andwealthy children ;. Job himfelf was called, Chip.:.3. (though byanother word,yet in the fame fenfe) t.hegreateftman in the Raft; This greatnefsis promifed his chil- dren, and they (hall receive additional further bleflings :. For the word [ 'tab] fignifies greatnefs, in a continual motion to Fore eminent greatnefs : And therefore it isfometime tranflated: by encreafing; So (.05.9.6.) Where the Prophet fets out the flow- :tithing glory of the Kingdom of Chrift;. Of the increafe of hia Kingdome and peace there gall be no end; or, of the&reatnefs and Ari Expofttion upon the Boer of ] 0 B. Vert. 25,
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