324 Chap. i 6. AnExpofitionupon the Bookof J O B. Verf.16. upon the skin. and our horn in the duft, are the heft enfgns of an affliól ed (fate. The Prophets counfel indeed is(Joel 2. 13.) Rendyour hearts andnot your garments. Rending the garments may be taken, not only ftriEtly for that aa, but largely for all outward afings of forrow) Yet when he faith, Rend not, this is not a prohibionof, but a caution a- bout theoutward acingof their forrow, Notin Scripture, is not aiwayes totally negative, it is often direffive and compa: rative:Soin this plaee,Rontyour hearts andnot your garments, is,yourbearts rather then your garments : or be fur,,tto rend your hearts,as well as your garments: The one muí£,done,the other ought not to be left undone. See more of this, Chap, 1. verf. 20. upon thofe words, Thenyob rent his mantle. Thirdly, Obferve. Great forrow producethgreat Tells, and leavethfuck impref_ fions as teflifte where it is. The Apofile faith of the forrow ofthe World,That it wor- keth death, 2 Gor. 7.I o.The forrow of the world may be taken two wayes. Firft, For the forrow ofcarnal worldly men, whofe for- row for fin is only a vexingof their hearts, not a breaking or humblingof their hearts ; which being feperate both from true faith for the pardon offin, and from any real purpofe of leaving their fin,worketh death,both temporal death, often wearingout their natural life lingeringly, and fometime de- firoying their natural life violently, as in Judas, as alfo haft- ning them on to eternal death, of which it felf is afortafi, or beginning. Secondly, This forrow of theWorld, isa forrow for the Iofs of, or difappointmentsabout worldly things. This al- fo worketh both thofe deaths in meet worldly men ; and when it is exceflive ( as under a temptation it may be) in a godly man, it maybe faid to work the death of the body in him ; yea great and continuedforrow, though it be not exceffive,worketh towards this death in a godly man,drying his bones, and drawing out his fpirits, as is clear in Job, on whofe eye. lids thevery fhadow ofdeath fate, while he wept and forrowed. 'Tis hard todiffemble a little grief, but a great deal cannotbe hid: Asgodly forrow manifefts it fell in excellent eífe4ts upon the foul, ofwhich the Apotilenum- bers
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