hoz Chap. ,'. AtaExpofition upon the- Bockof J OB. -Verf.,, That, fometimes a godly ma nt hope may lye proftrate. My dayes ( faith he ) are cut offzoitbout hope:yob thought ( as I have noted from force paffages before) that his cafe was defperate,his hope lay in the du(I,as well as his - body,or his honour.Evcry god.. ly man is notanAbraham, of-whom it is laid, Rom..4. 18. That againft hope he beleired,in hope : Nay Abraham, is not alwayes Abraham, he that hath fuch a ftrong hope, hath it not alwayes, even his hope may fotnetimes pof ibly be hopelels . There are weaknefTes in the-firongefi, and imperfeótions may. come upon thofe who are perfect, ebbings after the greatefk &wings, and' declinings after the greateft heights ofgraces and gracious adings. My dayes are(pent without hope, yob having thus complained ofhis condition, and al%rted his own detires ofdeath, now turnes from his friends, with whom he had difcourfed all this while, and betakes hintfelf to God, to fpeak a.while with himThe next words .are.generally under- flood, an4poftrophe to God : :Verfe 7. O rememberthat my life is wind, mine eye Jhall no more feegood, &c. Ó remember that my life k wind. To remember, is not here ta- ken_flricS}ly,.for to God.all things are prefent. Remembrance, is the calling ofthat to mind which is pall; when the at ofremem- bring is applied to God in Scripture, it hath one of thefe three fences. 1. It notesa refolution and fetled purpofe in God,toad his ju- flice, or infliEt,punithment upon his enemies, Pfal. 137. 7. Re- member, O Lord, thechildrenofEdom : that is, Lord bring forth that decree ofthine, for theruine and deflruó}ionof thefe bloudy .Edomites, who have been cruel againfi thy people. "Secondly, it liignifies an affeó ion in God, ready tohelp and re- sleeve his own people : Pfal.74. a. Remember thy Congregation Which thou didít purcbafe ofold, that is, doe good to thy Congre- gation, biefs thy Congregation. Thirdly, To remember, imports an aft ofprefent conftdexation: to rernembcr,is fully towcigh,obferve and takenoticeofthe of}ate of things or perfons : Pfal. 38.39. He remembred that they were butflefh, a wind that paffetb away and cometh not again ; that is, he confider'd and weighed the efiateof man : So in this place, ì remember that my life is wind; that is, confider) and weigh it well;
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