776 Chap. 21. An Expofition upon the Boakaf J o s. Verl, 25, finde no favour, no relifh inwhat they eate.The belt prepared meats are to them but as a dry ftick,or the white of an egge.I cannot (faith one) tail my meat, I eat this* Ieats that but taft neither;or ifI tall what Ieate,and find it Tweet tomy pa- late yet I have fuch fowr fauce with it,fo many afllicgionsprefs my fpirit,that pleafant bread is as Gal &Wormwood tome.I never eat in pleafure. We are(I conceive)to underftand the text ofthis natural! lenfïrivepleafure which man takes by the or- dinary blefiing of God in the ufe ofcreatures. This is denied to many, they Bate not in good, and it may therefore be laid, as theSeptuagint render here, They Bate nogoad. How good ,.Dever the meate is, it isnot good to them that have no con- tent in eating it. Yet further, as they never eate in pleafure, though they fit everyday at full and well furnithed Tábles, whofe bodiesare it affected by ficknes,or their minds with for- row;fo there are manyofwhom it may be laid,that they never Bate in pleafure, becaufe they have but little ofany thing and nothingof that which is pleafant to care. A rich mans bread may fometimes be called the bread ofadverfity, and his water the water ofaftlic`kion, but anextreamepoore moos bread and water are alwayes fó, What pleafure have they in their lives, who canhardly be fayd to live; orwhat pleafure have they in eating, who are onely preferved from ftarving. Such pitiful! poore onesare Iitterally in yob's Text ; They die in the hitter- nef e of theirfoule, andnever Bate in pleafure. Henceobferve; Thedifference which godmakes among men, even in outward things is verygreat. One lives and dyer in hisfulflrength,wholy at cafeandquiet another,. never eats in quiet, nor knoweth what it is to be at cafe; one bath pleafaut bread prepared for him every day, and he dayly eats in pleafure ; Another doth not onely sate thebread of forrow, (Tfal.12,7.2.)that is, breadgotten with the fweat ofhis face, with hard labour and care, but he eateth his bread with forrow. As theacepe of a labouring man, (Eccl, g. r2.)fo the bread ofa labouring m:an is ufually tweet to him, whether he cite little or much, yeteven to force la- bouring men their bread is not fweete, .wg
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