280 Chap. 3o. An Expofetion upon the Book! of J o a. Verf.3 i. Chrift, andofour acceptance in him ; This will make the heart merry topurpofe, and fuch a merry heart, or ( as fome render ) good conkience is like amedicine indeed, it refrefheth the whole body. Now as fuch a merry heart is a medicine, fo there is a for- rowfull heart, which is as a difeafe or a confumption to the whole body; it wafts and withers the flefh, it fcorcheth and 1poyleth the completion, it dryes the bones, and breakes the fpirit. Such were 7tbs forrowes,c'tt bone, are burnt. And when he felt fuck fires offorrow kindled in him byhis great afilidion, It was time for him to fìlence his Organ and his Harpe, So he did. Verf. 3 t . (My loarpe i.e turned' into mourning, and my organ into the vayce ofthem that weepe. Lora moos et 74Laving made this fad narrative of his forrowes,what could glori, fm flatus be expe ted but this fad conclufion. Timewas when 7,,6 had his moor tri/fi corn- muficke ; He was wont ( it feemes) toufe his harpe and organ, wutatos eft. both toexcite and expreffe his joy, but he eyther totally difufed Jun: them, or ufed them only to play fad and dolefull tunes, to feed and ftrengthen forrow. tally harpe is turned into mourning ; or ascot ding to the letter ofthe Hebrew , myharpe itfor mourning. Signifcat omné J a'n tacit a o, As if lob had fayd,My harp is now for no other fervice but for cujus figna font forrow, 'cis fet or wound up to no tune or legion but lachrymx inffrune"ta mu. or lamentation, I mindnothing but my troubles, and they al- fifofce: in merorë, Qg animi anxie 'wages mind me. The harpe which is an Initrument of mirth, tatem venfam may by a Metanomie ofthe ad;un& be put for mirth it Celle; My efe. Merc. harpe, that is, my mirth is turned into mourning, Cuhara mea. i. e. hdarhas Andmy organ into the voice cfthem that wee;e. mea ; Merano- mia adjunfi:. Mr. Broughton renders; .And plea/antfaunds be rocepers voice. Pil . We had the Organ at the 2 id) Chapter v. t r, 12. They fend RL7 out their little ones hike aflocke, and their Children dance,they take invocem jfenn- tcm, i.e. in fle the Timbrell and Harpe, and rej.olce at the found cf the Organ. turn. The word rendred organ, comes from a roote that lignifies to MA; genus or. love, and to love with a kind ofexceffe, eyther becrule that In- gmmuftcf ab ftrument of tnuficke is much loved, or becaufe it ftirres up of- emote jc fetion and is an incentiveof love. turn. Mell: r. The in Pfal. t 5c.
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