Chap. 29. An Expotition upon the Boolt, of J o B. Verf. Z. 4a5 our inner min to former firengch and ac`livity in the way of trod 'and vo ks of blind's ; this is the bets desire, the moti gracious praye of an fftded foul, O that f werear in months pall'. I doll joynboth the interpretations of Jobs"with in the follow- ing Obtervation, We are more apt to prize and to be tatienwithgood things pa/p, then withgood thing; prefect, whetherfpiritesal or temporal, Idoubt not but fob had a due valuation of his outward corn- forts,and alto of his inwardgraces,when he et+joycd both in their belt perfe&ion yet the want of the one and rile decay of theo- ther, did increafe . his valueof them, and rake their price in his foul, 'O that it werewithme as in timer pall. He that is lick and languifhing faith, O that it were with me as in the months pail of health ; and he that is fallen into poverty faith, O that it were with me as in the time when I was rich; and he that is in bondage, or a prifoner, .faith, O chat were with me as in the daysOf my liberty,when I could goe and flay where I lit+. Qeflionlcfs Da- vidhighly prized thepowerful and favourable pretenceof God withhim in his ordinances when he had them to the full and liv- ed' (as we fay) at the wells mouth but when he was deprived of them, O howeager was his fpirit after them ? (Pfal.63.r, 2.) O CÇod thouart my God, early will I feek, thee, my foul thirfleth for thee, myfilth longeth for tbee,in a dry and tbirf}y landwhereno wa- ter is, to fee thy power and thy glory fo eu Ihave feen thee in the SanEtuary. What dry and thirfly land was this, andwhat was this land where there was no water ? he clothnot mean it of the na- turalbarrennefs of the foile,or ofthe providential drought or dry- nefie of the land for want of rain from the clouds.; but in a meta- phorical fence it was a dry andEl-dray land to his foul, that place .ycelded'nomeans of grace, no food nor refrefhing for hisin- ner man. Nowwhen 'David was in this land, this dry and thir(ly, land, what faith he ? Aly foul thirtieth, for, thee ; what to doe ? 7o fee thy power andglory,as I have feen thee in the Sanl'loeary. As if he had laid, I remember howI have feen thee in the Santlua- ry, 1 remember whatfulland largedraughts ofthe wine of thy con- folations I bave had, while Ihad libertyto-enjoy, andwaited for en- joyments to thine Ordinances ; ¡remember bow,aboandantly Ihave been fatesfled with the fatnefs of thyboafel: and now O Lord,t I ;tali
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