24,0 Chap. 30.' An Expof'etion upon the Book! of J o a. nerf.25. I am under a great deale of harelfhip, and trouble, hard things are put upon mee, and I have eafed my foule ( which is the belt cafe of foules) by prayer. Thus the confufed and troublefome . flare of the wicked is expreffed, ( Ifni, S. ai.) And they (hall pale through it hardly brflcad and hungry, and it /!ball come to pare , that when they'hall be hungry, they (hall fret themfelves, andCroft their King. and their God, and ¡coke upward. The bard things which they fuffered railed hard thoughts and hard words, . botloof their chicle among men, and oftheir God ; they curled their King, who, as 'they fuppofed, brought them into thofe (traits, and they fpake no better oftheir God, litho did not deli- ver themout of their (traits , or when they were bard beflead and hungry,as thefe men curled him who brought them into,or would not deliver them out ofahard day, fo yob wept when he law any in it. Did not I weepe for him that was in a hardday ? That is, in a hard or troublefome condition. And was no: my foule grieved for thepoore ? In the former part of the verfe, ?ob fpake of external! for; row ; Did not I weepe ; weeping is forrow expreffed ; in this lat- ter part ofthe verfe, ?ob fpeakes of internal forrow, or forrow conceaved, Was not my foule grieved ? It is poflible for a man to weepe and have teares in his eyes , when he bath no forrow in his heart ; Some Weepe for their finnes, who doe not grieve for them ; and tome weepe for the forrowes and troubles of o- thers, when their heart is not affefted, much leffe affli&ed with their troubles ; but faith yob, Was not nyfettlegrieved ( within mee) for the poore ? Was I not inwardly and really grieved Mine was not an hypocritical! (hew orihadow of forrow, but my forrow came from my heart; as my heart was grieved for ,irty owce tranfgreítions, fo for the affii6tions of the poore. As the rejoycing of the foule is the greateft rejoycing, My foule magnifieth the Lord, and wy fpirit rejoyceth in god my Saviour, fayd the Virgin, that is, I greatly rejoyce ; fo the forrow of the foule, is the greateft forrow. Was not my foule grieved ? pàV doluit, There is an Elegancy in the word, and'ds uled only in this tvt n, ioifiatus oneplace all the Scripture over; and Ifind atwo-fold rendring e ¡Writ of it. Firft,
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