510 Chap. 6. Aft Expofition upon the BÌo%of : J O B, Verf. ao There two things, to be afhamed and confounded are often owned by the Saints in their repentance. It is belt not to do any thing whereof to be afhamed, but when we have done evil, it is good to be afhamed, To hide ourfins for flume and not to be afha- med of them, when they are not bid, are equal aggravations of fin. Hence when the holy Ghod would let forth mien impu- dent or fhatnelefs in finning, who finned and cared not, who raw them, he faith (Jer. 2. 34..) Alfa upon thy skirts is found the blood of innocents, d have not found it byfecret fearch, fo we tran- flate it ; the Hebrew is, I have notfound it by digging ; as if he had Paid, fome men are fo afhamed of their tins, that when God comes to finde them out, he mull dig for thern,becaufe they have digged into the earth as it were to hide their fins ; but others are fo impudent in finning, that God needs no dig to finde out their ; fins, they are fo thamelefs, that they let their fins lye above ground, or as the Prophet fpeakes, (Ira. 3. 9.) They declare their fins like Sodome, that is, openly. Truth and holinefs never Leek corners, and fometimes fin and wickednefs do not. And as the doing of evil forbidden, caufeth,orfhould caúfe fhame ; fo cloth the not receiving ofgood exp. ded ; hence when the Lord would affure his people, that they fhould undoubtedly receive all the good he had promifed, anal which they on that ground could ex- pea, he concludes with them thus, Arad mypeople float' never be a- jhamed,whyTThe reafon is plain in the Text, Te shall eat inplenty and befatisfied, Joel 2. 26. which is direaly oppofite to this in job. TheTemanites were afhamed, becaufe being thirfly, they were not fatisfied. And becaufe Jefus Chrill (hall 1e abundantly fatisfie all the hunger and third, and fupply all the wants and weakneffcs ofevery beceiving foul, therefore it is expred under this word and notion,Yyhofoever beleiveth ou him fhall not be afhz- Pederunt pure- med, TLOm. 9.3 3. or, fc.sdaquam Such a meaning the word bears in this Text, E they were afha inveniendam med] That is, when they raw there was no water to be had, they would have hid themfelyes in the earth, or digged holes to hide themfelves in, for greifand (flame. And forme render this word here ( though to another fenfe,) They digged. That is when they raw that there was no .water in thedreams, then they fell a digging to fee if they could Linde any fprings. That's a good fenfe.But rather take digging as before. To Phew what fname would have us do, when we have done
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