Chap. 28. vira Expalitian ttio.f, the Book of Jo B. Verf. 28. 39a Thirdly, To fear the Lord, is an argument that we know our own inceref+, what is good, yea what is bell for us ; to know that, is our wifdom ; and none but the wife, the fpiriurally wife, have ever attained to this knowledge, that their greate(a interel lycs in the fear of the Lord. That's our bell 'facet-ea to which all good is allured and annexed by promife ; and fo °cis to the fear of the Lord. (Pfal, 34. 9.) Ofear the Lord ye his Saints , for there is no rrant to them thatfear him. Who can defire CO be ina better condition,then to be above or beyond the fear of want ; and that's their condition who fear the Lord. He doth not fay, they that fear the Lord have all things, but there is no want of any good thing CO them that fear the Lord ; it's pollible for a man not ro have many things, and yet to want nothing ; and not to want is a great deal better then barely to have ; and yet the fear of the Lordhuh not only a promife of freedom from want, but of the belt injoyments. (Pfal.I 28. r, 2, 3.) Bleffed is every one that feared: the Lord, that walketh in his way ; for thole [halt eat the idear of thy hands, happy (halt thou be , and it (hall be well with thee; thy wife (hall be as a fruitful Vine by the fide of thyboufe, thy children like OlivePlants round about tby table; behold that thuspall the man be bleffed that fearetb the Lord. As Hamancau- fed it to be proclaimed(Hcft, 6.9.)Ïbus (hall it be done to thema n that the King delighteth to honour. So here, behold, thus (hall the man 6e bleffed that fearetb the Lord;he (hall be bleffed in his wife, and bleffed in his children,fobleffcd inboth that the Pislmifl calls all to behold it, as a rare, beautiful, yea wonderful fight, Behold time Pall the man beb/effed, And yet the man fearing (God (hall be bleffed more then them, his blefìïng (hall come in thebeer way, (v.5.) The Lord pa!! biefs thee out ofSion t his temporal mer- cies (hall cane in a fpirirual way, yea he (hall have fpirirual hidings, He (hall blefs thee out of Sion ; And he (hall have bieff ngs beyond his own walls : Thou [halt fee thegood ofJerufalem, all the days of thy life thou [halt fee tby children: children, and peace upon !frail. Sometimes a good man can take no conteat in his family- mercies, becaufe of the Churches ai 1 Etions ; he preferrs Jer.sfalem before his chief joys (Pfaff, 137, 6,) and whiff.^ ;hat is mourning he cannot but be forrowiag, though hit own bode be full or joy ; and fomtimes a mans on family is fo tffliEted, and his °houle'fo full- of forrow that he cannot bue rrrour 1
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