Chaps©. AnExpofition upon the BookofJ OB. Verfio 277 them weeping and feeding on afhcs, their own Wine is as tears, and their Bread as aches to them. Haman came full from the Queens Banquet, and he was invited by her to a fe- cond Banquet the next day, yet fill he was hungry, and Paid, Heft. 5. i z. 'All this availeth me nothing.fo long as I fee Mors decai the ;few fitting at the Kings gate: Tis like, Haman had eaten and drunk freely, yet the Banquet had not filled his bel- ly : All this availeth me nothing. More thenforty of the Jews bound themfelves under a turfë,that they wouldneither eat nor drinktill they had killedPaul, ALls 23. 12, 13. It would have been better to Haman then meat and drink to have kil- led Mordecai, and all the Jews: Some have been heard to fay, 0 howfweetis revenge! What a pleafant draught is a draught of blood ! Spightful fpirits hunger and thirft for the downfall and mifery of thole who ftand in their way; nor will any thing fatisfie hatred , but the ruineof thofe who are hated , and when once they fee them ruined, they are fatisfied; as envy is troubled at the good which another enjoyes more then at all the evils which it Pelf feels ; fo malice is more fatisfied with the evils which befall others , then with all the good which it feltenjoyes. Exod. 15. 9. The Enemy raid , I will purfue, brill overtake, I will divide the fpoil,.my lufifhall befatisfiedupon them. Phara- oh and his Courtiers,yea all the Egyptians hungred and this- fled for the flefh_and blood of Ifrael : They had a lull, or a longing rather ( as woman with child have fometimes inordi- nate appetites after ftrongmeats)to eat mans flefh , and drink the bloodof the flain : Revenge is ascraving a luft as covet - oufnefs,but it is a luit more eafily fatised then covetoufnefs. This encreafes.by receiving what it deftres, but that. (if it may have it ) is fatisfied: That which covetoufnefs receives; is only asfewel to a fire, but that which revenge receives, is as food to the Itomack ; thedefire of the end is infinite, but the end beingonce attained, defire is at an cnd : Te are filled with me. Job having thus def+t:ribed the inftruments and manner of his afifìion, turns his thoughts from them to the fupreame efficient, and orderer ofhis afhiftions, meatus finir efl infinitut. Y
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