566 Cbap.29. An Expofrtion tapon the Book of )O $. yerf. 18 and carry away all the eggs, is himfelf proudly Paid he had done (Ifa. io. 14.) and as the Prophet threatned he fbould doe (z Kings io. 17.) Thus the heart of good Hezekiab was tumor"d with pride,vvhile it thould have been lifted up inpraife. There is a great danger in worldly things ; they fometimes impale upon thebell of men. Though (through grace) they arenot altoge- ther overcome, and flupified with worldly enjoyments, nor alie- nated from the love and life of God,as woridliags arc yet Deg- le5ing their watch and forgetting themlelves, they may grow over-confident. So David did, and fodid Hezekiab, whoyet (as the Scripture faith (a Chron. 3 2. z6.) Humbled himfelf for the pride of bù heart (bothhe and the inhabitants ofPerufalem) fo that the wrathofthe Lord camenot upon them in the dayes ofHezekiab. He dyed peaceably in his ne(i. And though we may judge that there was fomewhat of acarnal confidence in feb too, when he laid, I ¡hall dye inn/ neff ; yet he altohumbled himfelf for that and all his undue palstons inthe time of his tryal,as appearsin the 42d Chapter of this book. So that, though there might be a fayling in him, when he laid, IPall ¿pin any nef1, yet the breach wasmade up ; and though once he had no hope to do fe, as before be had too much, yet in the dote he did fo : He altodyed peace= ably in his nel+. And notwithflanding all char bath been laid as a probable proof of Job: error in this fpeecb. There is one paflage in this book very pregnant to prove that fobs confidence was fomewhat mixt andallayed with thoughts of a change, and that as he had hope of a prolperouscourte while hewas in this world, and of a profperous conclufion when be went out of it : fo he was not altogether without fors; or at !call without due and often confederation that it might beotherwife with him then it was,be- fore he dyed. We hear him making: this profefsion exprefsly (Chap. 3.z6.) Iwas not infafety, neither bad I refs, nor had I quiet, yet trouble came. Thefe words being fpoken at the begin- ning of histroubles, Teem to intimate, that fob in the height of his profperity (for to that time he points) was not fate in his own apprehenfion, that is, he did not think himfelf fo fate, that trouble could not come at him, nor reach him. He was not in the ref of fecurity, though he was in the refi of peace ; nor did he judge himfelf fo felled that be fhould never be removed he had force bodements or mifgiviogs uponhis fpirit, that his ref{ and
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