Chap. e9. An Expofztion upon the Book of j o B. Verf. 6. 465 is fuppoed Jobdrvelr; as if hehad Paid, the Olive-trees that cH lapdofis & grew among the Rocks yeeldedme fuch flreams:'of oil, that the oven°,(. Vie Rock it Calf might be thought to have generated a Fountain of A9utn it. The words may be rendred to that fettle ; There was with me aR ockmelted into Rivers of 0)1. As we read (Pfal.8 t.16.)Of Honey out ofthe Rock, Becaufe fwarmes of Bees did many times hive themfelves in a Reck.So here we have Oylout of the T.ckk, becaufe Olive-trees did grow among the Rocks. Hence note Plenty,thegreatsfplenty of outwardgood things, falls fometimes to the lot orgood men. Job had enough and to fpare. A goad man may have abun- dance, but he Both not define it, or fat his heart upon it,he Both not:bufe ir, and grow wanton.orproud with it. It is finful to fet our hearts unon, or abufe the leaft portionof the creature, (they who havebut a little may loon become guilty of abufing ir, and of letting their hearts upon it) but tohave and hold for good ufes the largefi portionof the creature,even Rivers of Wine and Oyl is not linful. While we make not worldly things as fewel for the flefh tofulfil the lufls of ir, we may poffefs not only fo much ofthem as will barely ferve thenecefsity of our flefh (as flefh is put for the outward man) but the regular and moderate -contentments of ir. Paul laid (Phil. 4. l 2.) l know both how tobe abafed$ and 1know how to abound,It is a great peice of fpiri- tual wifdom to know bow to want, and a greater to know how to abound. 'Tis harder toLife abundance well , then to be well in want ; and the reafon is, becaufe abundance puts,as it were, a llaffinto the hand of every lull. Rivers of Oyl do but Oyl the wheelsofour corruption, and caufe us to move faller in forbid- den paths. Fula:Cs offers an opportunity to every lull to aft its part to : Ir offers much to prideand malice to acct their parts ; It offers much to intemperance and luxury to aEt their parts. Want flops the fupplies!of lufl, and puts out the fireby drawing away the lewd of it.Theyhave attained true learning, who have learned to abound, and yet to be temperate ; to abound,and yet to be íober;'to abound,and yet to be reek and ready to forgive thofe that have wronged them ; to abound, and yet tobe hum- 0 c o ble;
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