2I2 Chap. 19. e/fn expuf :tio r upon the Book, of J o B. Verf.lo indifférens eft ad tignu n ride & at; duna out exci- fum frgniifican- dum>. He hash removed my hope. My hope is gone; what hopewas this which was fo move- able ? It was his hope about, or for worldly things ; Oar hope ahoat moveables, is moveable; The hope we have about the world, is like the fafhion of the world, which paffeth. away. ?ob's friends had laboured much to encourage and revive his hope; the hope ofa reititution to honour and greatneffe in this life. But, faith he, my hope, this kinde ofhope is removed, 'tis gone; he had given fitficient proofe that hehad a hope which was not gone, but was'indeed the Anchor of his foule, /fire and f edfaik, and that it flood_raft: a 4Ioejnt Sion, in the middeft of all the fhakings of his worldly hope, and could not he re- moved. He bath removed my hope. As we are to take it for a worldly hope in general!, fo force reftraine it to his :hope of Children ; Parents have much and many hopes about. their Children : A good Child is ufually call'd a hopeful! Child ; Children hope to have an Inheritance from their Parents, and Parents hope to have comfort in their Children. He that bath no hope of Children, is called a dry Tree, ( ÿo. 9. ) Here ?ob hemoanes ( according to this In- terpretation) both the foffe ofthe Children which he had, and . his hopelefneffe of having any more Children, under the meta- phor ofa-dryTree. He bath removed my hope ae a Tree. But I conceive e are not thus to ftraiten his fence; for not onely ( to his apprehenfion) was his hope of Children remo- ved, but his hope o-life, and ofany good which concerned this . prefent life. Hehath removed my hope erfs a Tree. The word fignifies both a Tree growing, and a Tree cut dòwne, or rooted up ; here we muff re-Itraine it to the latter ; hebath 'removed my hope es a Treewhich is removed or pulled out of the ground. lob profecuted this metaphor, (Chap. 14. 7.) There is hope ofa Tree ifit be cut dome, that it will fproeet againe,
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