a9 5 Chap.12. An Expofitionupon the Bookof JOB. Verf. s,, in the joyful,or rather jolly thoughtsofhim that is at cafe: a man at cafe bath pleafant and merry thoughts,& being full of thefe mer- ry delightful thoughts , he defpifeth him who like an expiring Lamp,fits fobbing & fmothering in fad and forrowful thoughts. Of Win- that is at cafe. ? ? Oiet,_fetled, and (as the word imports by a trope) infol nt .Quietus, t74n- and fecure; eafe Both ufually make men not'only fecure, but in- Bt er+ÿm Q ñer fr lent, Becaufe they have no changes,therefore theyfear net God )èeurr3s , info Pfal 55 .19. It is feldome that their hearts are changed, whole e- lens, quad Iran- fates feel no change. Civil_changes occafon fpiritual : None are quillirru houi- further from a fpiritual change then they , who fear not God ; ncs fecuros d7 and they who have no civil changes arevery often far from fear- idTolentcs in God eru alem lied little cafe á long time but the is ro- :eddat>, Ì f g , P rnifed it : Thine eyes(hallfee Jerufzlema quiet habitation, or, an habitationat cafe (Ifa. 32.2o.)Jerufalem that now is bath been an- unquiet habitation, full of troubles toil up and down but at laft God will make her aquiet habitation : Babylon bath been at cafe a great while , but Ierufalem Ihall have her turn to be at cafe too. lob fpeaks indefinitely, He is defpifed in the thought [Ofhim that is at cafe.] Let him be who he will a good man or a bad man,heis apt to defpife thofe that are in great aflL Lion. Agodly man is not wholly exempt from this not onely unchriftian, but unmanly paillon. lob fpeaks here with ateye to his friends whom, thoughhe rebukes often very Iharply,as actingvery fin- fully, yet he did not judge as wicked. The belt manat cafe may notonly be unfenfible of his brethrens of ic`tions , but in a de- gree flight the afflicted c Job fuppofes his friends faulty in this , as if he had faid, you (myfriends) areat cafe andquiet, all things go well withyou, Iam apoor fate', a rammedLamp, andyou de- fpife me,you make nothingofmy ordinary farrows , and but light of myheavieft burdens. A good man may fail thus farre for a time in his duty towards an afflicted friend , and though he fail not thus farce, yet he may comewithin the verge ofthis fin defpifn . For we defpife the'a1Bic`ted, not only by reproaching them with our words, and villifying them in our thoughts, but bynot lay- ing their afictionsito our hearts , and bearinga part in them,. by a brotherly fellow-feeling. When we do not fuffer with them ,
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