214 Chap.' 6. An Expofttion upon theBook, of J Q B. Vérf,2. cannot comfort me. As that which is one mans meat is ano- ther mans poyfon ; fo that which is one mans comfort is an- other mans forrow. All good men cannot take in their com- forts the fame way ; but the wayof comforting good and evil men, differ as much as goodand evil. The words of flat- tery and falfehood will ferve to comfort the one,no words will comfort the other , but tholeof tìncerity and truth: I dare not conceive job's Friends fuch as would low Pillows under the elbowsofevil men, yet furely they put hard Stones under the fore and aking arms of this good man. confolarorer The Vulgar Tranflation (peaks thus, Te are burdenfom 011670. 174. Carters : A comforter thould take off burdens ; forrow is a burden : As the judgments that God threatned upon the Jews, and other Nations, are repréfented in the Prophets under the name of burthens, The burthen of Judah; the burthenof Ifra- el ; the burthen,of Moab ; the burthen of Babylon ; the burthen of Idumea : So any afllidion upon a perfon , is his burthen ; and the bufinefs of thofe who come to comfort a Soul inaf- fliion, fhould be to takeoff his burthen, at leaf{ to lighten it. yob's Friends did indeed binde the burthen faf:ier Upon his fpi- rit, and thereforehe might well call them Burthenfm com- forters. Falfe hearts count all truth a burthen : The Land ( faith Amaziah) is not able,to bear his words (Amos 7, 10. ) yet his werewords of truth, and tended to peace.Some truths may be burthenfome at Come times- to a good heart:. Hard words are always burthenfome ; lobhad flore of them. L7 Icrun The letter of the Hebrew gives the fenfe thus , Teare com- Conio;atorct fortersof trouble; that is, troublefome comforters : As ifhe had lebori"ut mo. faid, Te do not comfort me in my troubles, but a trouble me with leflít. Ueb. comforts : Te are comfortersmade upoftrouble, that's the predominant Element , whichdenominates your complexion and con/iitution; ye are fo troublefome, thatyoufeem to be nothingbut trouble, Our rendring in the concrete is clear to Job's fcope, Miferable comforters are ye all. Hence Ohferve. Some while theygo about to aei thepart of comforters, . do but add to theirforrow, whom they pretendto comfort ; and inffead of comforters prove tormenters. But when doth a man deferve this title, Amifrable comfòrter? That which caufed job to charge his
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