Chap. 6. An Expofition uponthe Booke ofJ-0B. Verf. 3. 421 that is, the judgment and calamity that fhould fall upon M > And IJ . 17. z. The burden of Damafcats. And Ifa. r9. I. The burden of YEgypt. And Ifa.2 a. r, The burden of the ó1eírt of the Sea. And afterwards, The burden of the vally of vifion, that is of ferufalem ; And (2 King: 9,25.)' Wl an Jehu had kit= led Jeboram, he faid to Bidkar his Captain : Take up andcart him in the portionof the fieldof Naboth the 7ezreelite, for remember, how that when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord laid tbi- burden upon him ; That is, that he should b,o flain and thrown out in this manner. As affhitions upon wicked are burdens; So afil;6 ions upon the godly are burdens róò, they are alto heavy burdens : .Their fins are burdens upon'them, My fins (faithDavid) are gone over my head, they are a burden too benzy for me to bear, Pfal, 38. 4. Their fins are burdens and their forrows are burdens. Sin doth not only burden man, but it burdens God, I am preffed under your fins, as a cart it preffed that is full of fheaves, faith God, Amos 2. í 3 As man, by fin burdens God, fo God, by affliction burthens man, But of all afflifi;ions,inward afflictions are the greatefh burthen,: As the Spirit of a man is fhronger than his flefh, fo the afihi1i- ons which arc upon his fpirit are weightier than thole that are upon his flefh The fpirit hath.- wonderful frrength, all fpirits are Throng :. Angels are mighty in firength One good Angel is an over-matchfor all men: And theDevils (who are fpirits) are called not only Principalities but Poreers,becaufeof their flrength. Proportionably,the fpirit ofman hath a mighty fhrength in it,and fo the affdions, which are upon the fpirit, may have a greater weight in them. The affliCion which job complains of, as hea- vier than the fand, was not Co much the calamity that preffed his flefh, or thepain that tormented his body (as is plain in the next verfe) but it was the calamity of his fpirit, the affliCion lying there, A man canfuflain his infirmity, but a woundedfpirit,(that is, when a man hath, got a;blow, a wound, an áffliCion upon his fpirit)Who can bear? Pray.' 8.74. As ifSolomonhad faid,I chat. lenge all the world to find me out a man, that can bear a burdened wounded fpirit; unlefs Chrill put under his hand, íóo firerigth of mans fpirit, can bear theburthen ofa wounded-fpirit;A fpirit hath no weight at all, only flefhly and material fübflances are ponde- rous; but a wounded fpirit is heavier than wounded iflefh. The fpirit is throng enough tobear the -burthen?d flefh, but nothing, in &íló can bear a burthen'd fpititr :. - In
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