Chap. 22. An Expoftion upon the Book of J OB. Verf. 24. 241 and it is tranflared a defence at the ¡5th verfe.Selomon faith(Eccl. 7. i2.) not onely, That wifdome is a defence, but that money is a defence, (that is, it procures defence ) and Gold is thechiefe of mony.Though Gold be not adefence firneatly,yet virtually it is; Gold defends it felfe againfik all the forces of fire, and it is a prin. cipall means ofdefending us againft the fire and furyof theGrea- teil dangers. Thou'halt lay up goldas daft, &c. But Chrifl faith (Math. 6.19 ) Lay not up treafuresforyour felve.r onearth. And it was a rule given concerning the King ofIfrat 1 in the Levitical! Law, long before Ifrael had a King, ( `Dent. 17. 17.) He (hall notgreatly multiply to himfelfe filver andgold. How then, doth Eliphaz fay,that he who repents,/hall lay upgoldas-the duff is that'fit worke for him? I anfwer,thewords are not tobe under- flood as an exhortation to bend his endeavours to the gathering of riches; but as a promife fromGod that he ¡hall, by a bleß'ing from above, gather floreofriches here below. Thou /halt lay up Gold as thedu¡ .By gold here, and filver in the next verfè, we are to underfand all manner ofriches;becaufc gold and filver are the chiefriches, therefore all is contained under them. And when he faith,ThouIbalt lay upgold as theduft,the wordsreceive variety of renderings;fome thus,Theu fhalt lay up gold above theduft;as ifhe fhould fay ; thou ¡halt have more gold than duff, which is a firain ofrhetoricke, exprefíing aboundance ; Others read, Thou Jhalt lay upgold upon thedaft ; As (Pf: 24.2.) He bathfounded it upon the Seas ; A third renders, Thou.fhalt lay upgold by teé du/ ,Like that (Pfal. I. 3.) A tree plantedby the riverfide : A fourth thus, byway ofcounfell ; e.4nd laygold in the duff. Which two latter Et Done in PR' readings, are expounded as a direc`fiot given to 74,, how he_vere, uyum. fhould lay upgold,he muff not lay upgold in his heart and fpirit, tali anirnum but in the duff, or by the duff As if had faid;Put that purer du , aura apponere, that better concolled and refinedduff, in the common duff ; put the nitnif1; illud duff to duff ;put thy gold in its proper place, where God and nature ai "gere,fed ni- put it. 'Tù but duft, and a a. t companion for the du ea fa ``` tliima, de- , f fi f .% i y ( y ijce in terram f ome) [is as ifEliphaz had laid ; Doc not fo much as make roerre wide ortu n eft for it in thy houfè, provide not theftsfor it, let it lie where it had its slime ut ter- 6- It camefrom the duff, there leave it, returne it backe to 'am laFides its oron Gauntry, to the place ofits nativity. A Heathenbath this Pi iSc de,es notionconcerning gold and Giver, &c. And he labours much to' (5:.NO,etra pCa Phew that the fire & pofihionof there things in nature holds forth ÿuit. Goc. I i how
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