'Chap. ,6 An Expofit ionaprn the Book of J ® B. Vert. z. 411 but gúet ed at them yet,you havenot weighed themior if weigh- ed them, yet not throughly weighed them, you have nop weighed them ( whichyou ought ) as you would weigh gold,aó a grain,or to the turning of the (tale ; or iffo, your beame is not a trueone, nor your ballance the ballanceofthe Sanf,uary, you have weigh- ed me, but, by a common beame, or ( j fear J by fall ballances, anda bagge ofdeceitful weights. 0 that mygrief. ] The Vulgar Latine translates, 0 that myfins, namely, for which I am thus afflicted, were tkroughly weighed ; As if the meaning ofJob were to lighten his fin,and to aggravate his fuffcring : But doubtlefs,that was none oflobs mind or mea- ning, neither will the original bear fuch a tranflation ; when our fins are put into the ballance with our fufferings,all our fufferings, the heavieft we can feele or undergoe in this life are but asa fea- ther to a talent of lead. As all theafidions of this life are light, in comparifon ofthat exceeding weight ofglory, prepared for us in the next life. So all the fufferings of this life are light,in compari- fonof the exceedingweight ofone fin,committed byus.Thereforc lob makes no fuch comparifon here,as ifhe had bin aidedmore than he defrved ; That ofEzra concerning the Church of the Jewes ( Chap. 9. 13. ) Thou our godhaft punifhedus left then our iniquities deferve, is true of every punifhment ; put any punith- ment of this world,fpiritual or temporal,inone fcale, and the leafs fin, in another, that lightell fin .out-weighs our heavieft punith- ment.Only,in hell fins and fufferings (hall be ofequal poyfe. God will then powre and meafure our punifhments, which (hall come up to the proportion and dimenfion of our fins, and what the creaturecannot bear at once in weight,fhall beweighed to him in eternity. But topafs that rendring, as unfafe. 0 that mygriefewere throughly weighed. Our English word,fcale, which is the inflrument,by which we L73tu weigh, is well conceived to come from the Hebrew word here ti- L`bY42`t' l'on. fed Shakal fi nit in to weigh any thing, but of eciall to t, olir, ( lC. ) $ Y $ $ Y $ P Y moreralibra., weigh coyneand mony,to weigh gold and (ilver; As Gen. 23.16. kwuryca Abraham upon thepurchafe of that field,which he bought of the Pondere h.7be- childrenofkieth, for a burying place, weighed to Epbron the fa- bat'f'-'6ctna ver, which be had named. It was the cuftome ofthofe times in (lead Pecu "r'r "t m" oftelling, to weigh their moray, and that was the mail e ni ex numero xact and t: nu ready wayofpalment : And from that word ( Sbakai ) dignifying' Ulpian, Ggga to 7itinam peeco- tamea,Vuib
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