Chap. za. An ExpoJition upon the 11ookofJ O B. Verf. 17. 523 Laftly Some give the meaning as ifthe fordid difrofition H:cde fcribitur ofacovetous worldling were here defcribed; who though hodinisrravri he Both abound with the thingsof this life , yet he dotti not "ßnì u eni; fee them : that is, he bath not a heart to make ufe ofthem, but ,,,1, u o,r,,,u keeps all in prifon : His rivers and brooks when in their high- copia ahunder eft fI'ood,are as dryed up tohimfelfe; This (I grant) is a judge- nrbit fill ex t ment vifible upon many covetous wicked men, who as much nK aff"""`' want what they have,as what they have not. but I paffe this. Cact. alto, and flail infili onely upon our firfi interpretation : He Pall not lee therivers, &c. Then he had hopes to fee, that is, to pofheffe and enjoy them : He made fore ofthem, but they pafled away, and provednot fore tohim. Hence obferve, Firfi, worldly man loathgreat expeElations, he pronsifetb himfelfe huge things in the world, whole rivers, brookes andfloods ofbony and butter. Small matters will not ferve his turne, he dreames not onely of Gold, but ofgolden mountaines, and golden fhowers, he dreamesof rivers and goods ofgold : What pleafant dreames ofefieemes'honour, and riches hath he : He phancieth that all (hall not onely honour, but humor and adore him : He pro mifeth himfelfe, that he fball be able todoe what he will, and make whomhe pleafeth ftoope to him, that none (hall dare to fpeakea word, or rife up againft him : What fine imaginations have many about this world, but they reckon ( as we fay ) without their Hoft. For, Secondly, Obferve , Godoftencuts wicked men 'bon oftheir expeefations." He (hall not fee the rivers,' &c. of bony andbutter:He looks for them, but he (hail not fee them: He hopes, but he (hall be afhamed öfhis hope. What the Poets phanciedofrantalus,is true and accomplifht in him. He is Tantaliz'd, (landing up tea the chi,nein thofe floods Ze rivers, ofwhich hecannot drinke, he ha. h pleafant apples touching and playing upon his lips, whichyet he cannot taft.He thought himfelfe happy ingetting great things, buc, his rnifery is, he cannot injoy what be bath gotten. Solomon faithof a floathfull man ( Troy. 12. 27.) He X x x z rcflesh
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