64S Chap 7. An Expof tion upon tbeBook of OB. Verf. 16, nifies in the Hebrew, an Idol and a vain thing : Deut.32,3i, yer. 2. 5. the word Abel is translated Idol ; and the Apo(ilr f r Cor, 8.) tells us that an Idol is nothing in the world, that is,an Idol is the vainefl thing in the world, or the greatelt verity : So that up- on the mat ter, our ellateand our dayes here are but an Idol, that is, the reprefentation of a thing which is not ; fo much vanity and folly, fo much trouble and forrow, fo much aftliCfion is mixed with the dayes and life we now lead , as A nothing is all it can be jullly be called, or an Idol, a thew, of what is not. And therefore we may well make it an argument (as job here) to take us off from the world, and to chide worldlings with, as D avid did (Pfal. g..) Oyefns ofmen how long willye love vanity ! or as Solomon about that adored Idol of the world, riches,(Prov; pinny 23, 5. wilt thoufit thine eyes (or as the original) wilt thou caufi .PTY Y thine eyes toffy upon that, which it not. An Eagle will not catch flics (that's no game for her) much lets will fhe make a flight at not hing,when there is no game fprung at all.And wilt thou make a flight with thy heart('for the eye which Solomon chiefly intends, is the eye ofthe foul (when nothing fprings before thee,but,tbat which is not. To clofe this point, if the creature be fo vain, and the dayes of man be vanity, let us fet cur eyes and hearts upon that which is fomething,upon that which is all,upon that which is lafting,upon that which is cverlafting, upon that which is true, upon that which is truth,upon that which will not deceive,upon that which cannot deceive, upon that which will be more in fruition, then ever it was in expedition. The excellency ofthat etfatc we have in fpirituals, confills in this,that as it promifeth much,fo it performeth much, and rather more then it promileth; a beleiver finds hinifelf fatisfied in Chrift, beyond expeftation ; the foul did not expo& fo much as it finds. As the Queen ofSheba coming to Solomon, had fatisfadion be- yond report and promife fo (hall all who come to Chrifl;he makes us large promifes , and if we beleive, we (hall find largar perform- ances : we than, at Jail, fay, that the halfof tholegood things which we now enjoy, were not toldus in the promifes : Cod path laycd up all good in his word, but our thoughts are not able to take out the extent ofthofe good things ; hence it is faid, that when Chrift appears, Hefhall come to be admircdin his Saints ; things (hall be fo far beyond their apptehenfona that they (hall be all in admira- tion, JOB
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