Chap. ß. fin Expo/ition .up,n the B,ok of J OB. Vet1.20 done amifs,or when we mils what we would find, thenwe feek covert and hide our (elves. Hence thefe two are often joyned in Scripture, : haine and hiding, with the difappointment of hope. Read a Text ofnear compliance with this in the letter ! Jer:i4. 3. ',Their Nobles have feat their little ones to the waters, they came to thepits andfoundno water (it was in a time of drought) they returned with their veffels empty ; what followeth ? they were .t- parried and confounded and covered their heads. Again, verle 4. Becaufe the ground is chaps, for there was no rain in the earth, the plow -men were afhamed, theycovered their heads. And Joel t. t o. r I. The corn is wafted, thenew wine is dried up ; What foliowetìh? Be aJhamed Oye Husband-men; howl 0ye Vine- dreffers, becau-fe the harveft ofthe field is perifbed. So that in common language and current of the Scripture, (name is an effect of difappointment, and hiding the face, or covering the head, an effef of both. Obfervehence, Firft,That deceived hopes trouble us as much,if not more thanpre. lent wants. A prefent want is a prefent (mart ; but deceived hopes are a perpetual fwart;and that's the reafon why the burden of forrow is fo heavy, and the drought of the damned ( who, as Diver in the Parable (hall never have a dropof water)fo intollerable.They toallude to the tcxt)hoped to come to the- overflowing ftreams oftheir former earthly delights but alafs, thepaths ofthe way of thofe brooks are turned aftdefor ever,they aregone to nothing andpe- rifbed.All the while they travel (and that will be an eternity ) through that howling Wildernefs and fiery defert, they thall not meet with one rivelet, nor tafte one dropofcomfort tocool their parched tongues,or refrefb their inflamed bowels, Hopes delayed trouble, but hopes deceivedconfound. Secondly, obferve from this paffage, 7bat deceivedhopes fill with fhame. Deceived hopes make a male bide his head. Shame arifes two wa'yes,either from doing a thing againíi com- anon principles; or from losing a thing againil common expeeta_ tion.The Lord threatens the idolatrous Ifraelites that theyfhall beafhamedofthe Oaks, which they have deftred andcoufoundod for tbegardens which they bbadchofen,If. r. 29. Why a(ha'med of Oakes and gardens:becaufe in gardens,and under fhadyOaks,they fit up and-wor(hipped Idols, in which-they milted for deliverance -and pro-
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