SS Chap. S. fln ,Expofitian upon the Book of J O B. Verf. zq, exceedingly difpleafed and vexed(as the word properly fignifies) he many times tears his garments, andeven cuts his own fleflr,like the idolatrous Priels of Baall, who were fo angry, becaufe they could not get an anfwer,that they cut themfelves after their manner with knives and lancers,till the bloodgu/hedout upon them, r Kings 18. 28. Griefcuts the heart alwayes, and Jometienes caufes cutting of the fle,fli.The Lord çórnplains(Pfal.95.1 o.)Fourtyyears long was Igrievedwith thisgeneratioee, it.is this word, fourty years long was 'vexedand cut with this generation, with their murmurings,back- hidings and unbelief. They did (as it were) cut the Lord to the heart ; as inanother place, They broke him with their whorifh hearts,Eze.6.9.God (peaks there asa man whole patience is almoft fpent, or, as an husband with the dilloyalties of an adulterous wife. And thus we may joyn it with hope, either as hope imports the aft ofhope, or the object ofhope,Whofe hopePall be cut off , the expeEtation which the hypocrite bath had than come to an end;or 4 time is at hand when an hypocrite (hail be pail hoping. Ob(erve h nce, DeJpairing is the cutting off ofhope,and Inch is the condition of an hypocrite.To have hope cut otf,is the greateft cut in the world. Will the hypocritepray alwayes ? No, at laIt his prayer (ball be cut off; Will the hypocrite hopealwayes?No,at laí1 his hope (hall be cut off. The Saints in heaven have (in a fenfe) their hope cut off, becaufe they arc above hope : and at la(t all wicked mens hope (hall be cut off, becaufe they are below hope. It is better,to have all our po(felfions cutoff, then our hopes. Better have the threed ofour lives cut offthen theAnchor -cord ofour hope cut ofand fo we left to the rage and tempel ofdefpair. Again, `joyn it with the objedof hope, thus, All that an hypocrite hopeth for or expeels,(hall be Utterly taken away ,andcut ofJfrom him. His worldly comfort will be gone, and heavenly comforts will never come. He (hall hod that he bath been in a golden dream, that he bath b en,asone that ishungry, whodreameth that, he is eating,but when he awakes his foul is empty ; or,as a thinly man, that dreams he is drinking, but he'awakes,and behold, heirfaint, Ifa.29,8. When dreamt fat iifie hunger and thirff,thhypacrites hope (hall bei,3tisjed.Hypocrites (hall have as goód as they bring. They bring God nothing but words and empty proféfíions ; and . they (hall
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