Cap. rlr. ì,!pon:tA J O$. Verf.i2. 2 26. 1 was not infafety,neither had I refl., neither was I quiet,yet trouble came. It feerns Job was never at eafe, and yet he faith here, I was at eafe : He that is not in fafety, and had neither rat nor quiet, furely, He is 'in little eafe. There is no contradif ton between thefe two, we may eafi- ly reconcile them,and make up the feeming_differcnce, thus. When fob faith (Cbap.3.)1`was not infafety,neither had I ref(, Neitber was I quiet; his meapingis,that hisfpirit did not truft upon his outward profperity:He had abundance in theWorld, but he had no carnal confidence inw'ordly things. job ne- ver laid to his foul (when his Barns were full, and his fubtlance multiplied ) Soul takethy eafe, ease and be merry, thou ha(t enoughfor manyyears. job had much of the crea- ture in his hand, but he kept it all out ofhis heart, and when he was furtheti from tnrfery,`'he wasfar enough from fecuri.. ty he did not think -his life fife, becaufe he had fufficient to live upon, nor was he at reti becaufche was rich. A Be lievers reti is not in any outward comfort which he receives from God, but in God, fromwhom he receives all his com- forts. So then, fob (peaks thereof the fpiritual frame of his heart,but here he fpeaks of the temporal 'frame of his world- ly eftate, in which he had cafe, and the affluence of all good thíngs,no man molefling him : As ifhe had faid, Time was when I was not pinchedwith poverty in my Oats, nor blafted with reproach in my credit nor tortured with pains in my body I can remember the time when Iwas at full eafe in all thefe That's his fenfe in this Text, and between thefetwo there is no oppofitions: Aman may be at eafe in the world,andyet not make the world, his eafe;nor ref upon the world. Ì war at cafe, pry4iî 11tß Such was my förmer flaurifhing condition. The word Yacijicur,tran,. lignifies to be peaceable, quiet, or wellfetled, the Vulgar quit u¡;guiemt tranflates, I was a rich man ; the fame word in the Hebrew cram. lignifies a rich man, and a man at cafe for two reafons. Fat opulenrus, Firft, Becaufe riches and eafe ufually go together ; and Vulg. unlefs a man live at cafe, that is, in outward peace, it is hard togather riches. Times ofwar and trouble are fcattering and impoverifhingtimes :The rorslingStonegeuino Mofs.As men have the bell opportunity, fo they are moti at` ive to gather wealth 0 o 2 when
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