446 Chap. 6. An Expofition upon the Eooltof OB. Verf,7 near : poverty and foa res, torrecs es and warmesare my catty panions, and my cares.' From t hat fence note, what at one time w: loath, at another time may be our diet. We have a Paying, what if one plans meat, i! ane- thtrmanJ pry'on; but it miy fall out to the fame man, that what he difguffed and avoided as poyfon, he fhall be confirained to receive for his meat andpotion, Lam. 4. 5. They that lid feed delicately, are defolate in the f reets-; they that were brought up in fray. let, embrace dungbil:: When thofe gallants were in leader, how did their fouls loath a dunghil ? they loathed to touch it with their feet, but now they mutt hugg it'in their armes, and lay it in their bofomes ; they er bracedu .gbils, How manyhave been brought from faring delicioufly, from wearing purple and fine linnen every day to Icraps and rags, to hunger and naked - nefs every day, The Lord threatens the delicate dames of lerufalem with Inch things as their proud fpirits and haughty fouls rcfufed to touch, 1/a. 3. 24. It ¡hall come to paje, that in Awl of Tweet finell, there [hall be a (lint; and inflcadof a girdle, a rent ; and infleadof well Pet haire ballncf:;and ir-fcad of a flcmacher. a girdingmitb fackcloatb ; and burning irflead;of beauty. Take heed of coynefs and curiofity : many a dainth tooth hath been rauglit by lounger, to knaw bones, and water for a arufl of bread. Obfcrvc s Secondly, That which makes affliíîeon: mofl greiveus so toe, it the unfuitableneffe of ourfpirits to aFfl úwns : Delight and Contort cinfifi infutablenslo ee the objets to our affeaiiou and defires. God offers fpcd ritual food to the natural man, but his foul refutes ro touch it ; he loathes Angels food, and is weary of the manna of the words the precious Gofpel, the bread of life, is an aEfliaion ro him, becaufc his heart is unfutable to it ; howwill Inch be af- feted at the laft, when they find , That, as their forrow- ful meat for ever, which their fouls will for ever refute to touch. They, who loath Chri(l and his wayes, flail find nothing in the end to feed upon,but what is moll contrary to their appetite, e- ven fire and brimflone, and an horrible tempefl, rhefe (hall be the portion of their cups and the meat in their dill forevcr.HoW forrowful will that meal be ? But we may rather apply all the words of Eliphaz., in the two former Chapters:and jobs ready fubmiflion in the firft and, fccondChapters, to thc :affli Ling handof God, argues for him that
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