Chap: 30, rin Expoßeian Span the Book of J ß s. Verí, 30. 279 !amity. My bones ( faith he ) are burnt, that is- my of li Lion doth not only afiet my skier, or the outfide of my body, but my very bones ; it dries up the marrow and moifture there. 1 feele a fire within me, drinking up my fpirits, and ready to burne the very beames and rafters of this houleofclay,my bones. As there is a fire which vilibly contumes our houles ( wee have feene runny fuch fad fpedacles) fo there are fires which invisibly confume our bodyes and our bones. God can as quickly kindle a fire which (hall confume this houle of the body which him- (elfe hash built, as thofehoules which we have built. Some af- flidionsare as a fire, which bu: nes inward to the bones. Fierce Obferve. great terror wafts and fiends not only the beauty, 6ut the f{rength of man. It reacheth to the bones. David fpake more then onceof this of edof his forrowes, efpecialiy of. his fio.forrows, or forraws occaíion'd by his fin. ('Pfal. 32: 3.) when 1k,pe filence (not confeffing my fin ) my bones waxedold, that is, I had fach trou- ble in my foule, aseven baffled me into old age , or made the fymptomesor tokens ofit toappeare upon me before their time, T avids bones waxedold, He complainer an as lob that his bones wereburnt, (Pfal. 502, 3. ) My days areconfumed like fmoake, my bones areburnt u an hearth, my heart (mitten andwithered likegraft, fo that Iforget to Bate mybread ; by reafon of the veyce ofmygroaning my bones cleave tomy skin. Howmany metaphors and hyperboles, or exceffes offpeech bath David brought toge- ther in this one context, toPhew how exc, finely -his heart was wounded with forrow for the afHidion of Sion ; Let forrow come fromwhat caufe it will , if o,;ce it be great and fi .cere, it will leave markes enow to tell every man where it -is, fo/own faith, ( Pro. r 5. 13. ) s4merry heart maketh a chearefull coun- tenance, but byforrow of theheart,the ffiárit ú br..ken. Arad oogaine, more emphatically and juft in ?f.;bs phrafe ( Cbap 17 22. ) merry heart dotbecod like a medicine, but a br,ke>e fprit dryeth the bones. By a merry heart in both texts S.1 moo intends the fame thing, but he intends neyther of themofcarn,ail mirth. The mer- ry heart there meant is a heart merry uponlholy gr,;u-d-,e: peci- ally upon a fight, by faith,ofour reconciliation to God through Chris,,
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