tob Chap. 7. Expofttion:upon- tbeBook ofj'O B. Verf. 7 21í8 there he rivers, brooks and itreames of there commodities, yet he 'icutCreci (hall fee none o£thetn,.tltat.is, he (hall not enjoyor tall a drop of tin e' b¿um a- them, That unbeleeving Lord, is toldby Elifha, that he (hould tiquandopro fee plenty in Samaria the next day, but fh:,uld not cate thereof, puirhro, cs,n. 2 King, 7., 2. Not to (èe,is not to eat;and he that fees,but eats not, raado ö anti is not releeved,but troubled,at the tight. ufurpant.tra mine eyes(hall notfeegood. What good ? when a man dies-, ¡u.brnde H _ fhall,he fee no more good ? We fee but little good while we live, ,br,ti vocabu- i,um,Tob,Fu, and the greateft good, is to be fern when we die; or rather, while ,ius,inGcn.s. we live, what dowe fee but evil; and when the faints die, what ,a, have they.to fee but good ? how is it then, that Job faith, whin In h" 3' f" die, mine eye 'hall not fee good ? what miferable creatures were on i' loca4, we, if.there were no good to be teen beyond the line of this life ? S.cripiurd rn- tD+gcnda ell our. riche(( frock ofcomfort,lyes in the good we (hall fee hereafter, de jiotunorru which is therefore called, the bleffed- making vifton ; And Job er co: morn knew. well enough, that his eyes (hould fee good- after death, for 9' he faith ( chap. 19.,i with theft eyes tur.tibi ? toff 7') f y (hall 'fee God; he knew r:f;reeLstoneVI, alto his foul had an eye to fee good ( and a better goad then ever pi l,.udebunt he law in the world) while his body layin the grave. Then, his t.e,ni,jtdonce meaning of, Mine eye ¡hall no more fee good, is no more tuunti uoid1 worldi y good, none of *there good things, which I have Peen ; j cd ow np l- íh3l1 be above the frnart ofearthly forrowes, and above the fence j3rebin.rei oni- or earthly ;oyes. Good is either natural, or civil; or fpirituil ma & corpora When God created the world, he looked upon all that he had +r r made, and he law that all was very good : Civil good is the or- çtrfum ?,x to- der, peace and profperity of the world: death flops the tightofall j,+irur, neg,ni this good. As for. eternal or fpiritual good, death rant of clot rediturum h®- ordimple the eye againfl tholeobjeffs.. mincn;.;btbrnc Then here is no plea for. Atheills againtt therelurrec`}ion, nor 4xceli XeJi t. a ay, againft the foules Being, or beingawake, tilt the refurre# ion. "`Elio "ar't+o yob f ekes onlyabout.the f hhere &.courte ofnature, when man rumcivinur.m, p ` y P fupra ncturam dies naturally, and is in, the !late of the dead,,he enjoyes nothing, spu ell quo h:c he ac"r5 nothing according_to the etlate ofthe living, *Pfal,1 15.17-. nonreJprcit,na The dead.praife thee,not, &c. there it no work, dvice or bu. 11.14e r..n1ur3 f :vfr at all in the grave, Eccl. 9, 1 o. The hand works not, the crn forum or- ".n fo .j¡Yen,,tongue fpeak.s not, The eyejball no more fie ibis good. ogomodo'n+ers. lob e xi%efres himfelf by an ad ofthe eye, which carries the T "grnda fuit greater} strength for refìelhing to the whole man. All the joy and iu ei q; li ç leafure we (half have in Heaven, comes i n by light, we fhall fe. him .45 he i.4 ; The beholding of God in Ch rift, is the beatiic3l vifo áy.
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