tzS Chap. t t. an 8xpofttion upon the Took,of J O B. Verf i6. on earth and in heaven , lies in their delivrance from fear. Arid ifany ask how can this be ? Thenext verle anfwers, Verfe 16. Becaufe thou¡halt forget thy mifery, and remember it'as waters that page away. 7. ,n1 t.,74 Thefe words give us a reafonof the farmer.'Thou./halt notfear, X cbor bemire thou 'halt forget thymifery Or thy labour. As we do not feel., fo we cannot fear that which we have forgotten : and he who is delivered from dangers is much armed againfl the fear of danger ; while he well confiders how he overcame thofe which are pall, he fees whatfoever may come, as already conquered. Thou fhalt forget. This forgetfullneffe implies two things. Firfl,That he fhould be long free from loch evils as had oppref- ;d him, fo long, that he fhould forget that he was ever oppreffed by loch evils The fruit of a long freedom from trouble, is for- getfulineffe of that trouble. The Lord faith ofhis people in Ba- bylon, they have been loftfheep ; theirfhepherds have caufed them to go affray, they havegonefrommountain to bill they haveforgotten heir resting place (Jer. So. 6.) now as (beep havinggone long affray , forgetJheir former folds and refling places , fo they who have been long freed from mifery, forget their mifery. Length of me wears out the remembrance both ofthe good w'e have enjoyed, :$;.,c1 ofthe evils we have fuffered. Thus God encourageth the be- eeving Gentiles, Ifa. j.q.. q.. Fear not,for thou¡halt not be afhamed, either be thou confounded, for thou(halt not be put to fhame : for ¡houJhaltforget thePaine of thyyouth, and¡halt not remember the reproach ofthy widowhood. The fhame of their youth was their bondage in Egypt the reproach oftheir widowhood , was their ca-:invity in Babylon ; here the Lord promifeth loch a mercy, as (hall ¡Wallow up the memory of both. As a great mercy puts out the memory of a letter (fer. t 6. 14, t 5. Thedeliverance out of the Babylonilh captivity, fwallowed up that deliverance from Egyptian bondage;) fo great mercies long continued fwallow up the remembrance ofall our miferies. - Secondly, Thisforgetting notes loch a removal! offormer evils, that not fo much as a fcarr, or any print of them thould remain to be leen : Iwhile the fcarr of a wound remains , the memory of it cannot fJremain. WhenPireph interpreted 'pharaohs dream about
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