4.22 (.hap. t o. An Expofrtion upon the I3ook, á f J O B. VeC f; ,r, dearth ' That is, frommy body which it f abject todeath by reafon of tl?efe rcnairrt of carnal corruption, or from my ctrnal corruptions, whichwe the remains of myfpiritual_death) and arc vole- è to me t. en any de irk All the .af LCfiofs ofhis life, and the pains-ofhis body, were but a play, and a kind of (port, Icoinpared with the trot;. Ile which this body of death put him ta. .ße r joyccd.in tribula- tion, but he could not but mourn under corruption. Many poor fouls re Co vexed with theft: myfiical Can.:anises, that theirfpi- ritual Canaan the hate ofgrace) is to them like Etypt, the land of their captivity. And when they are commanded to.rejoyce: they anfwer, if we. could not lin, we could rejoyce, -Höry 'hall zne fug the Lords long in .t ¡trange laird.? ,O that we might .go home. Thirdly, The Saints grow weary of their lives through the wickednefs of other-mens lives ; not only do their own corrupti- ons burthen them, but (which thews the holinefs oftheir hearts more) the corruptions of others. The finfulneís and pollutions of the times and places wherein they live, cfpecially of perfbns they are related to, snakes tiir lives grievous, and inibitters all their comforts. .liehelcah, that good woman,tells her husband I- fàac (Gen.-27 46.) -I am wearyof my life, becaacfè ofthe dategb ers ofHetb, for if Jacob take..z wife of the daughters ofHeth, latch a theft which are of the daughters h the land, what good my I fe do me ? The Cweetnefs of my life is gone, ifthis -fur mi,Ccarry; as Is s brother hathdone b,fòre him. The Prophet Jeremy cries o t, O that I had in the wilderneCs a lodging place-of wai(àiring men, eat- I might leave my people, and go from them ; What made him Co weary ofliving among them.? (and that was but a Rep on this fide beingweary of his lite,) The next words (hew us, They be all adulterers, an afJisnbly of treacherous then Jer. 9. 2.) Better be in a walk wildernefs among wild bea(is, then in a populous City, amongbeaftly men. 'Tis a part of our compleat happine(s in heaven, that we (hill have no ill neighbours there. They who areevil can take pleat-tire' in thole who do evil. But the more brlineßany one bath, the morels he burthened.with.tlae un- brlinefÌ of others. And that's t ie,reafna why God himfelf isex- preft to be Co exccedinly burdened with the tins of men, to be wearied and broken: with them, '.to be laden with them, as a Cart with,fheaves, .ç e.it.infinitely__hrly.: ,Grieve not the holy Spirit of God (Ephcl 4. 30.) The Spirit is fo.hely,thatfin ( which is un- holinefs)
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