Chap. 2o. An Expofition upon the Rook of 'j o a.. 'Vert, t7. 52'x Verf. 17. Hefhall notfee the rivers, thefloods, the broke: of honj andbutter. There words continue the mifery befalling a wicked man ; He bath gained unjufily, buthe fhall'not pofl'etTe what he bath a,,,, utrt;. gained. Hefháll notfee ; that is,he fhall not injoy; Seeing is not Jeikno v:jïe ;te r taken here for a naked hungry fight of thefe things. He may P deceu b1, fee the floods, rivers, and brookes ofbony and butterwith his 1 J -eye, but he fhall not have a comfortable ufe ofthem, Sight isfo re ire noble a fence, that it is put for all the fences; efpecially for that ii- o rejr which is the delire ofall the fences,enjoyment.V e render that °ri etexPe'hi; ofthe Preacher ( Eccl. 2. r.) Enjoy pleafure; The text is, See v` act afii9- pleafure; pleafure is the object of every fence, and that which fe,eum¡mut. n(. every fence naturally lookes for, is the enjoyment ofpleafure, fertu7.Anguf '. The light of thebell things without enjoyment,doth rather af- Jib. t o. Con - fli& usthen pleafeus. Thus here,they(hallnot fee, that is, they Éf C. 3 é s fhall not have a comfortable or pleafureable injoyment,of the Y'ásün. rivers,floods, and brooks ; here is an elegant heapofwords, all beingofa neere fignification, and concurring to make an Hy- perbolical( fpeech, frignifiing greaten abundance of good things; bony andbutter are put fcnecdochcially for all good things. Rivers, brooks flouds,denote the fullea fioreand plenty ofthem. Or thefe words may note thefe three things to us di- iu&ly, Fira, Plenty in the word food; we may have water in a pond orcifterre, but floods are the excefï'es and over-flowiogs ofwater. Secondly, Perpetuitie in the word river; floods fall quick ly; Torrents rife with the fall ofraine or the diffolvingof fnow, and when this bath been a while difiolved and that fallen, they fall againe. But rivers keepe a confiant fireame, being fed by confiant fprings. When the Lord faith (I/a. 4S. IS.) Then had thy peace been as a river ;Themeaning is,that in cafe of their obedience, their peace had been continued. And when theLord promifeth (Ifa. 66. Ia.) Iwill extendpeace to thee as a river; Heaffixes them that their peace null continue for ever. Thirdly, The joyning ofthere three together, flords,river., brookes, may imply variety ofkinds, or the confluence ofa! i X x x for s
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