Chap. 3o, In Expofieion upon the Book of J o B. Verl. 26. 255 Hence note; Hee that bath helpedothers out of their afilifliosns, may proba- bly lookeforpity inand helps out of his alsilion. Chritt gives that general! rule ( Luke 6.38.) With thefame meafure thatyee mete witkal, it/ha/l be meafured to you againe. That rulebath the force both of a gromife and of a thr,:atning in it. And as itYefpe is the quantity, that you (hall have as much or moremeafured to you then you meafure ; fo it refpeds the kind and quality of that which is meafured more. For if we meafure evil! to others, wemutt looke that evili 111111 be mea- fured to us againe ; and if we meafure out good toothers , we may warrantably looke that good thinl be meafured out to us againe; 766 thought he fhould havé the good of compaffion meafured out freely to him in his afilidion, he having meafured it out abouudantly toothers in theirs. And that the hearts of men would never have been hardned into (tones in the day ofhis calamity, when as his heart had melted into te. res at the cala- mity ofothers. That of `David gives much ..ffurance of this, (mfal. 41. r, 2, 3.) BlefJod is the man that confsdereth the pcore, the Lord will deliver him ( not the poore only, but him alfo that wifely confidereth the poore) in the time of trouble; the L,rd will preferve him, and keeps him alive, andhe Jhall be bli(Jed upon the earth ; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will cf his es>,°rnies. The Lord willfirengthen him upon the bed of langui,king : thru wilt make allhis bed in his ficknefJe. To confider the poore, is both to pity and helpe them. And be that is pitiful! to the poore,. (hall according to this Scripture be delivered out of trouble or preferved from trouble, both which are high as of mercy. And therefore 706 feems to wonder at ir, that evill fhould coaae, whenhe had this and fo many other probable grounds , upon which he might looke for good. Hence take two Corolaries. Firft we are apt to tbinkeorange of our of jliílions , when we fee ne resifts for them,. If wee cannot charge our (elves with fin, wee conclude, wee (hall not fuffer. Secondly , Mote. They
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