612 Chap, 29. An Expcfstion" up, the Becket' J04g. Verf. 246 rebdntetgrari- yet (hall ye be as the wings ofa dove covered withSilvet,litc.that is,- feabantur mi° though through forrow and afi Lion ye have Rained your beau- L:. Jun. ty, yet ye that'recover it again. Thus faith the Prophcr, illl faces(hall gatherblacknefi,chey(hall be fo full of forrow that the chara&ers and marks of it (hall be Ramped and "iinprefi upon their face;. Again (Nahum. 2. to. ) ,Sbee is empty and voyd and waft, and the heart melteth, and the knees fmite together, and much pain is in allloyns, and the faces of them all gather black- ;leftLamenting Jeremiab:,bewailes the fad effdts of famine in the fame aile (Lam. 4. 8.) Her Naxarites were purer then fnow,tbey were whiter then milk; but now their vifage idblacker then a coal, or (as we put in the Margin of our tranflacion) darker thenblack- nefs. There's no light,no day in their faces1 no morning there Ego tucemvut- The light of the countenanceis joy andchearfulnefs. tusgravitatem Thirdly, The light of a Magiarates countenance, is.hisgray], intetligo, qu.e ry ; that renders him very illutriousand beautiful in the eyes of veluthominem his people. A lightlook,tnuch-morelightnefs of fpirit obfcures m fpi áum re cr.- "the honour of Princes, and makes them little lets then contemp- Psrece. tible, almoll ridiculous. When David danced before the Lérd(at the bringing home of the Ark) withall hie might, girdedwith a linnen Ephod (z Sam. 6. '4.) tAticbol (the Q4een) Saul: daughter,lookedthrough a window and law King David leaping.and dancing before the Lord, and the defpifedhim in her beart,atld when fhe came out to meet him (v. 2o.) The Paid (in fcorn) How glorious was the King ofIfrael today, who uncovered btinfelf to day in the eyes ofthe handmaids ofhisfervants, as one of the vainfellows fhamelefsly uncovereth bimfelf. Though r ticbol beheld this áion of David in a falfe light, and weighed -it in a wrong bal- lance,;bot confidering the ferioufnefs, yea and fpiricualnefs of 'ávtdsheart in communion with God, while he appeared thus in the'eyes of men. Yet taking the acuion abaradly from thofe re- ligious circumflances of it,and his gracious intentions in ir,there is no doubt but his carriage was much below the dignity of his ccn- dition, and much unbefeeming the State, Majeay, and Gravity of aKing,efpecially of the Kingof Ifrael, Gods fpecial people. And had t lithol Peen him do fo upon any ordinary occafion, file might have had rearm enough,if not ironieally,toderide and jeer him with, howglorious was theKingofltrallto daylyet faith- fully and plainly to have reproved and admonifhcd him, with,
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