Chap, 19. An Expefition upon the Boole of JOB. Verf. i4. 243 Againe, To forget, is to negle&, or to flight, Though they had him in their thoughts, though he lived in their natural( memory, (as memory is taken properly for the keeping or laying upof that which is pall ) yet they morally forgot that is, they flightedand ngeleâed him.; And then my familiar friends have forgottenme is, as ifhe had faid ; Thofe friends to whom lhave expreifed love, take no careof me, they performe no offices oflove to me, nor doe they regard what becomes ofme, tinkleor fmim'tis all one with them.So the word is applyed( Lament.2.2. ) Hehall violently taken away his Tabernacle, as if it wereof agar. den,he loath deftroyed his places ofthe affembly, the Lord loath casefed the folemnfeafts and affemblyes to be forgotterfin Sion. How for- gotten ? The Lord didof caufe the yewes to forget that there had been folemne feafts, and Sabbaths in Sion, the thing was re- membred, and that was an addition to the forrow of their captivitie ; but thofe feafts were difufed by all, none came at them, none obferved them, and they were flightedby many ; thus they were forgotten. And as the Lord at that time in wrath caufed them to forget their folemne feafts in a orange land ; fo he promifed in mercy, that a time íhöuld come when they fbould be forgotten in their owne Land, ( ?er.3: 16. ) And it Jion11 come to paffe, whenye be multiplied and encrcafed in the Land,in thofe dayesfaith the Lord, they 'hall fay no more, The Arlie of the Covenant of the Lord, neither¡hall it come to minde, neither `ball they remember, &c. But what are thofe dayes, wherein the Arke ( which is put Synechdochically for all Ceremoníall ob- fervations) fhould not be remembred, or fhould be forgotten ? We mayunderhand it, either of the dayes of Chrifts comming in the flefh, when all fhadowes fhould vanifb or difappeare or ofthe times of their reflauration, when they fhould not trull to nor boafl ofthofeexternall Evidences of Gods pretence, as fors morly they had done when they cryed, The Temple ofthe Lord, The Temple of the Lord, Jer 7.4. They who ute outward admis niltrations may be faid to forget them while they live in the fpirit, and have no cnnfidence in a forme, though good ufefull and neceffary. Thus yob complaines, Myfamiliar friends haveforgqten me ; either they doe not at Al vifit me as friends, or they doe not ufe me friendly in their vifits. To forget, is either to negletl I i 2 the Oólivìa neg!i- genf eft, recor- datio veto diti- gem tvftkdfo.. "fa..
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